Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to the recently released World of Warcraft patch 6.0.3. Hotfixes are updates we make on our end without requiring you to download a new patch. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require your realm to be restarted to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client- side patch update. We will continue to update this list as additional hotfixes are applied.

Hotfixes have been listed by the date they've been implemented. The hotfixes have also been compiled by category for those wanting a quick summary of all hotfixes that have been applied since Patch 6.0.3.

Enforcer Sorka's Convulsive and Lingering Shadows are no longer incorrectly removed when the targeted player dies.

Marak the Blooded's Blood Ritual still only targets a player within 45 yards but the damage cone now has a range of 100 yards.

Fixed an issue where Iron Maidens not on the Dreadnaught may instantly cast their spells and abilities at the end of the boat phase.

Fixed an issue where Marak the Blooded was incorrectly gaining Sanguine Strikes at 75 Iron Fury on Mythic difficulty.

Blackhand

Rubble Piles should no longer appear after the transition to stage two.

Fixed an issue where a player may not be correctly protected from Blackhand's Impaling Throw when multiple players were taking cover behind the same Rubble Pile.

February 12

Classes

Death Knight

Armor Sets

Tier-17 2-piece bonus for Unholy Death Knights in addition to its current effect also causes Dark Transformation to apply an additional 40% damage bonus to the ghoul, increasing total pet damage by roughly 20%.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Blackrock Foundry

The Blast Furnace

Reduced the health of Primal Elementalists on Mythic difficulty.

Primal Elementalists are now immune to knockback effects.

Fixed an issue in Phase 2 where Slag Pools may fail to heat up Heart of the Mountain.

Fixed an issue where if the encounter is reset at the beginning of Phase 2, then Phase 2 adds would incorrectly spawn in during Phase 1 on the next attempt.

Kromog

Kromog’s Stone Pillars now persist for 60 seconds or if they are hit by Rippling Smash, whichever comes first.

Kromog’s enrage timer is now at 9 minutes (up from 8 minutes) across all difficulties.

Beastlord Darmac

Dreadwing's Inferno Breath and Spirit of the Rylak's Superheated Shrapnel no longer deals damage to player pets or guardians.

Fixed an issue in Stage Two where Beastlord Darmac may sometimes be unaffected by Cruelfang's Savage Howl.

Operator Thogar

Train schedules after the 7.5 minute mark have been adjusted to be less difficult on Normal and Heroic difficulty.

Fixed an issue that could cause reinforcements from trains to appear to be standing still while still moving around.

Iron Maidens

Fixed an issue that could cause Enforcer Sorka to become stuck in the railing after using her Blade Dash ability.

Fixed an issue that could cause the Iron Maidens encounter to reset prematurely.

Fixed an issue where Iron Maidens were incorrectly only dropping Normal difficulty quest items for Sigil of the Black Hand on all difficulties.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Arathi Basin: Completion criteria for the Resilient Victory achievement should now be tracking correctly and be obtainable.

Eye of the Storm (Rated): Fixed an issue where defending a capture point at Mage Tower and Blood Elf Tower displays the wrong tower in the chat window.

Blaze should no longer be dealing increased damage to players with the Incendiary Shots debuff.

Stage Three's Overheated effect should no longer incorrectly trigger player abilities that activate from being attacked.

The following hotfix from yesterday, February 9 was reverted. Blackhand's Marked for Death is back to a 15 second recast during Stage Two. In Stage Two, Blackhand now casts Marked for Death every 16 seconds (up from 15 seconds).

Items

Darmac's Unstable Talisman, Furyheart Talisman, and Goren Soul Repository can now trigger its effect from heals as well.

Frostwolf Fishing Journal can no longer be sold to a vendor and no longer has a sell price.

February 9

World Event: Love is in the Air

Crushing the Crown: Fixed an issue where the Crown Chemical Company Wagon in Darkshore was not granting quest completion credit.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Blackrock Foundry

Gruul

Gronnling Laborer's Gronnling Smash ability now deals less damage.

Reduced the damage that Gruul’s Inferno Slice deals to 10-player raid groups on Normal and Heroic difficulties, but increased the rate at which damage scales with raid size. Larger raid groups should find the damage relatively unchanged; smaller groups will find that the ability now deals less damage.

Fixed a situation where Tricks of the Trade (Rogue) or Misdirection (Hunter) could cause the Deckhands to go into evade mode.

Blackhand

Beginning with the new raid timer, Blackhand will consistently drop universal set tokens at the same consistent rates as other bosses in Blackrock Foundry.

If the Siegemaker's Fixated target dies, it should now Fixate on the closest target.

Cast time for Iron Soldier's Explosive Rounds ability should now be scaling smoothly with raid size and should no longer have breakpoints where the damage ramps up more than intended at 16 and 26 players.

Change Reverted: In Stage Two, Blackhand now casts Marked for Death every 16 seconds (up from 15 seconds).

In Stage Three, Blackhand's Attach Slag Bombs ability now prefers players that are not affected by the Impaled debuff.

Battleground and Arenas

Druid's Starfall and Sunfall no longer targets players that are capturing a PvP point in Arathi Basin, Battle for Gilneas, and Eye of the Storm.

Bug Fixes

Alliance characters that complete the Primal Combatant achievement are no longer being told to go to Orgrimmar to receive a reward.

Fixed an issue where characters that log out on the Deeprun Tram may be unable to log back in.

February 6

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Blackrock Foundry

Blackhand

[Requires a realm restart.] Siegemaker's Black Iron Plating is now removed by Slag Bomb. Slag Bomb's damage dealt to Siegemakers now scales up based on the number of players in the Raid. To adjust for this change, damage dealt to Siegemakers has been reduced for Impaling Throw by 20% and Slag Bomb by 30% (but damage still scales up based on Raid size).

Blackhand's Impaled effect should no longer be incorrectly removed by abilities that remove damage-over-time effects.

Shaman's Searing Totem and Liquid Magma should now correctly target Iron Soldiers while on the balcony.

Fixed an issue where Exploding Iron Star may sometimes not trigger or deal damage during the transition to Stage Two.

Upper Blackrock Spire

Sentry Cannons now self-destruct on Heroic difficulty when a player with Engineering uses Safety Protocols.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Eye of the Storm: Fixed an issue where Horde players were unable to capture the flag at Mage Tower.

February 5

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Blackrock Foundry

Resolved an issue where Slagshop Brutes may sometimes not reset correctly if the raid wipes while they're casting Death Howl.

Blackhand's Impaling Throw damage dealt to Siegemakers should now properly scale up based on the number of players in the Raid.

Visuals for Marked for Death and Slag Eruptions should now be easier to see.

Players should now only receive a single debuff that refreshes when running through Blazes created by Siegemaker Mortar attacks.

Resolved an issue that could cause some Hunters or Warlocks to suffer fatal falling damage during the transition to Stage Three: Iron Crucible.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Faction flags should no longer appear for players in an Arena or Arena Skirmish match.

February 4

Classes

Druid

General

Mangle's damage has increased by 27%.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Blackrock Foundry

Gruul

Gruul now uses Petrifying Slam against 5 targets in a 10-player raid, scaling up to 10 targets in a 30-player raid (used to be 8 targets for all raid sizes).

Hans'gar & Franzok

Mages should no longer be able to incorrectly Blink through the ramp at the end of the room.

Beastlord Darmac

Fixed an issue that could cause Beastlord Darmac despawn immediately once defeated.

Operator Thogar

Operator Thogar should now be immune to damage during the start of the encounter until he jumps down onto the tracks.

Iron Maidens

Admiral Gar'an should no longer interrupt herself while using Deploy Turret.

Blackhand

Players should no longer be able to avoid Incendiary Shot on the balconies in Stage Two.

February 3

World Event: Love is in the Air

Lovely Card buffs no longer work while in a Challenge Mode dungeon, Normal, Heroic, or Mythic difficulty Draenor raid.

Creatures and NPCs

World Boss: Rukhmar

Energized Phoenixes should now only fixate on players that are in combat.

Resolved an issue where Rukhmar could get stuck and not reset correctly.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Blackrock Foundry

The Blast Furnace: Resolved an issue where if the encounter was reset during Phase 2 - The Heart Exposed, adds will spawn immediately the next time Phase 2 becomes active.

The Blast Furnace: Firecaller's Lava Burst and Volatile Fire abilities should now correctly always hit a player even if they attempt to kite them.

February 2

World Event: Love is in the Air

Players should now be able to complete the achievements Beacon of Love and They Really Love Me!

Manufactured Love Prism now has a 60-second cooldown (up from 30 seconds).

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Garrison Campaign

[Requires a realm restart] Socrethar's Demise: Resolved an issue that could cause the event to not reset correctly.

Classes

Mage

Armor Sets

PvP 4-piece set bonus for Arcane Mages, Arcane Focus should now properly have its duration extended with Arcane Power by the Overpowered talent.

Paladin

Armor Sets

Tier-15 2-piece set bonus for Protection Paladins should no longer work for level-100 characters.

Quests

Gorgrond

Ambushing the Enemy: Resolved an issue where characters that have completed The Giant Cauldron first may be unable to see Thisalee Crow.

Legacy

Zul'Drak

Disclosure: Malmortis should no longer be getting stuck during a scripted event if the player was flagged for PvP combat and allow players to receive completion credit for the quest.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Highmaul

Resolved an issue where a number of abilities from Kargath Bladefist, The Butcher, and Brackenspore were not triggering player abilities that should trigger from taking damage.

Twin Ogron: Resolved a situation where having the raid wipe just as the Twin Ogron are defeated with a raid leader that did not perform hostile action towards the bosses during the encounter could cause the raid to not be eligible for loot.

Roll or Flying Serpent Kick (Windwalker) should now work correctly for Monks while they're carrying a flag.

Eye of the Storm

Flag captures in both normal and Rated Eye of the Storm match should now be correctly registering on the scoreboard and grant credit towards achievements that have to do with capturing a flag.

Flipping control of Draenei Ruins in a Rated Eye of the Storm match should now immediately teleport players waiting to be resurrected to the next available graveyard.

Resolved an issue in a Rated Eye of the Storm match that could cause a capture point to not flip correctly and be unable to be captured.

Items

Inscription-crafted Warlords trinkets should no longer be able to be upgraded using crystals meant for upgrading Inscription-crafted weapons as this could cause the trinket to end up in a broken state.

Goren Disguise can no longer be used while in a Challenge Mode Dungeon.

January 27

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Tier 3 Garrisons: Dungeoneer's Training Dummy for healing and damage have swapped places so melee classes are less likely to trigger the tanking dummy by accident.

Garrison Campaign Quests

Assault on Skettis: Creatures and NPCs associated with Assault on Skettis now respawn more frequently and increased the amount of morale awarded for defeating them.

Gladiator's Sanctum Level 3: Players can no longer be votekicked from the Coliseum scenario.

Primal Fury: Players that have completed the quest before the hotfix from January 21 should now correctly receive Thisalee Crow (Alliance) or Choluna (Horde) as a Follower.

Classes

Druid

General

Ferocious Bite no longer loses damage when cast with a low amount of Energy while Berserk is active. Berserk will still discount Cat Form abilities' Energy cost, but will include the bonus damage as if it weren't cast with Berserk active.

Feral

Leader of the Pack should now correctly trigger its heal for Druids that have learned the talent, Claws of Shirvallah.

Talents

Incarnation: Tree of Life's bonuses should no longer be incorrectly retained without having the talent learned.

Nature's Vigil should no longer be dealing excessive damage to high level targets by healing low level NPCs.

Rogue

Glyphs

Glyph of Recovery should no longer make Recuperate heal for less than the intended amount.

Quests

All quests should now still award experience even if the character is dead at the time of completion.

Frostfire Ridge

The Shadow Gate: Players who became stuck after completing "The Shadow Gate" will need to re-enter the cave within the Bloodmaul Stronghold in Frostfire Ridge if they were unable to see Orlana Strongbrow to continue their quest series.

Gorgrond

Ambushing the Enemy: Resolved an issue where players were unable to complete this quest if The Giant Cauldron has been completed first.

Talador

At Your Command: Horde characters who have faction changed to Alliance should now be able to complete the quest "At Your Command" if they have completed the Horde version previously.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Auchindoun

Grom'tash the Destructor and Gul'kosh should no longer force all party members into combat, including ones that aren't actively in combat with them.

Shadowmoon Burial Grounds

Ner'zhul: Resolved an issue where players may be unable to use the portal to re-enter the encounter area.

Icecrown Citadel

The Lich King: Resolved an issue where Val'kyr Shadowguards can prevent players from being able to complete the encounter if they pick the player up after Fury of Frostmourne has been cast.

PvP

Ashran

There's now a 30 minute delay between battles after Grand Marshal Tremblade or High Warlord Volrath has been defeated.

Stormshield Gladiators and Warspear Gladiators now respawn 3 minutes after Grand Marshal Tremblade or High Warlord Volrath has been defeated.

Items

Goren Disguise no longer works in Arenas or Rated Battlegrounds.

Scabbard of Kyanos' on use effect, the Sword Technique buff is now reduced by 40% while players have Battle Fatigue.

Swapblaster no longer works while in a Battleground.

January 21

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Garrison Campaign Quests

A Stolen Heart: Azuka Bladefury should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode for Horde characters.

Primal Fury: Completing the quest should now correctly award Thisalee Crow (Alliance) or Choluna (Horde) as a Follower. A fix to award the followers for players that have already completed the quest will be made at a later date.

Socrethar's Demise: Resolved an issue that could cause the banner used to challenge Socrethar to not work correctly.

Glyph of Illumination is obsolete and should no longer be incorrectly retained by some Paladins.

Shaman

Restoration

Healing received through Spirit Link Totem redistributing player health to match each other should no longer be incorrectly affected by Dampening.

Warlock

Talents

Demonbolt (Demonology) now deals 25% less damage against other players in PvP combat.

Warrior

Arms

Mastery: Weapons Master’s effects were overtuned and have been reduced in effectiveness by 18%. The mastery remains significantly stronger than before and is still 29% more powerful than prior to the hotfix from January 12.

Armor Sets

Tier-16 2-piece bonus for Protection Warriors now heals for 3% less for each character level above level 90.

Quests

Frostfire Ridge

In the Shadow of Giants: Players should now correctly receive completion credit while interacting with Flamrog or Kindler.

Legacy

Trapping the Leader (Kun-Lai Summit): Killing Shan Kien quickly should no longer prevent him from respawning.

Creatures and NPCs

Shadowmoon Valley

Gorum should now correctly leash back to their spawn point.

Gorgrond

Laughing Skull guards at Beastwatch in Gorgrond should no longer attack Horde players.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Highmaul

Tectus: Resolved an issue where several mobs during the encounter did not reset the cooldown on Marked for Death (Rogue Talent) when killed.

Seal of Truth now deals 80% less damage for Protection Paladins and should primarily use Seal of Insight for defensive value.

Seraphim now grants 750 of each stat for Protection Paladins (down from 1000).

Warlock

Glyphs

Resolved an issue where glyphed abilities that remove damage over time effects from a crowd controlled target would incorrectly cause damage over time effects stored under Soul Swap to be removed from Warlocks.

Quests

Garrison Campaign quests are now listed under "Garrison Campaign" category in the Quest Log.

January 13

Class

Death Knight

Unholy

Festering Strike's damage has been increased by 28%.

Scourge Strike's damage has been increased by 28%.

Druid

Balance

Starfall's effect is now only suppressed when shapeshifting into a non-Moonkin form. Shifting back into the appropriate form will allow the effect to resume.

Monk

Armor Sets

Tier-17 4-piece set bonus for Brewmaster Monks now only triggers when you Purify Moderate or Heavy Stagger.

PvP 2-piece set bonus for Brewmaster and Windwalker Monks now only triggers while in PvP combat.

PvP 4-piece set bonus for Brewmaster Monks now confers 75% of the Guard effect to the 2 nearest allies.

Rogue

Combat

Blade Flurry is now able to trigger from Multistrikes.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Highmaul

Kargath Bladefist: Resolved an issue where players can incorrectly get locked to the instance after wiping to Kargath on Mythic difficulty.

Imperator Mar'gok: Gorian Warmage's Fixate ability should now only cause the targeted player to drop out of stealth instead of incorrectly causing all steathed players in the raid to drop out of stealth.

[Requires a realm restart] Barn: Trapping now awards a caged beast for each nearby party member with an appropriate level barn. More information regarding the change can be found on the forums.

Creatures

Shadowmoon Valley

Bahameye should no longer be incorrectly phased in some instances.

Gorgrond

Poundfist is now immune to crowd-control effects.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Highmaul

Imperator Mar'gok: Councilor Gorluk's Phantasmal Weapons should no longer cause all players in the zone to go into combat.

PvP

Ashran

Grand Marshal Tremblade and High Warlord Volrath should no longer be able to be pulled through the side gates.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Arathi Basin: Using Ice Floes or Aspect of the Fox should no longer incorrectly allow players to capture a point while moving.

Silvershard Mines: The northern track switch should now work correctly.

January 8

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Garrison Buildings

Barn

[Requires a realm restart] Increased the spawn rate and number of spawn points for Direfang Alpha, Ironhide Bull, and Wetland Trampler. This hotfix will be deployed in combination with the hotfix from January 7 to increase spawn rates slightly.

Class

Abilities that heal based on a percentage of total/maximum health should now be able to be correctly modified by healing debuff modifiers.

Hunter

General

[Currently in testing] Freezing Trap now has a trigger radius of 3 yards (down from 5 yards).

Paladin

Armor Sets

Hotfix to change the PvP 4-piece set bonus for Retribution Paladins announced from January 5 has been deployed.

Priest

Glyphs

Glyph of Reflective Shield should now correctly only reflect damage on self-cast Power Word: Shields and not when it's cast on other players.

Quests

Gorgrond

Reagents from Rakthoth: This quest can now be completed if another quest, Plant Pruning has already been completed.

Seeking the Scout: This quest can now be completed if another quest, Plant Pruning has already been completed.

[Requires a realm restart] The Giant Cauldron: Players should now be able to reacquire or complete the quest if they disconnect or log out during the flight after speaking with Choluna.

Raids and Dungeons

Highmaul

Kargath Bladefist: Defeating Iron Grunts before the start of the encounter no longer grants favor with Roar of the Crowd on Mythic difficulty.

The Butcher: Pale Vitriol should now correctly be reapplied to Hunters under the effects of Deterrence on Mythic difficulty.

PvP

Ashran

Bonus Objectives in Ashran now restart every 30-40 minutes after completion (up from 20-30 minutes).

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Capturing a point in Arathi Basin, The Battle for Gilneas City, and the Rated Battlegrounds version for Eye of the Storm should now take 7 seconds (down from 8 seconds). This change restores time to capture a point back to what it was for these Battlegrounds in pre-6.0.2.

Items

All Follower contracts are now bind-on-pickup.

January 7

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Garrison Buildings

Barn

Deadly Iron Trap now only traps an elite creature (Direfang Alpha, Ironhide Bull, and Wetland Trampler) that the player or party has tap credit on.

Conversion for Frost Death Knights should now correctly count as 15 Runic Power spent toward other abilities that trigger based on Runic Power spent.

Druid

Restoration

Wild Growth's healing should now smoothly increase with Haste instead of having breakpoints. Total healing for the ability will vary slightly depending how much Haste the Druid had previously; with healing increasing slightly for most Druids.

Armor Sets

PvP 2-piece set bonus for Restoration Druids should no longer incorrectly consume Nature's Swiftness when the root effect is triggered.

Hunter

Talents

Resolved a situation that could cause Binding Shot to not stun the target correctly.

Monk

General

Way of the Monk now increases the Monk's autoattack damage with one-handed weapons by 25% (down from 40%), and increases the attack speed of two-handed weapons by 55% (up from 40%).

Priest

Talents

Clarity of Will's (Discipline) damage absorption shield can now stack up to a maximum of 75% of the casting Priest's health (instead of up to 50% of the target's health).

Rogue

Subtlety

Honor Among Thieves now only triggers its effect in combat.

Sinister Calling's triggered Bleed effects should now be able to Crit or Multistrike if the source Bleed effect could Crit or Multistrike.

Shaman

General

Lightning Shield should no longer expire prematurely when Cyclone is cast on an Elemental Shaman.

Warrior

Fury

Wild Strike should now be correctly crediting the full amount of Rage that had been spent towards the talent, Anger Management.

PvP

Ashran

Players should now receive advanced notification when the Bonus Objective: Brute's Rise will become active.

Players now have 60 seconds to accept the prompt to enter Ashran (up from 20 seconds).

Bug Fixes

Resolved an issue that could cause Quest achievements for Draenor zones to not be awarded correctly to characters below level 100.

December 19

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Garrison Buildings

Gladiator's Sanctum: Resolved a situation that could cause players to be unable to receive new Nemesis quests.

Quests

Frostfire Ridge

The Cure: Frostwolf Gladiators can no longer be killed by Alliance players.

UI

Guild Bank Money Logs should now be able to correctly display records of transactions greater than 215,000 gold.

December 18

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Outposts

[Requires a realm restart.] Completing a quest for a newly swapped Outpost building should no longer cause it to incorrectly revert back to a pre-swapped state.

Classes

Hunter

Talents

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Chimera should now work correctly with the Glyph of Mirrored Blades.

Priest

Talents

Clarity of Will's (Discipline) protective ward on a critical effect should now be correctly reduced by Battle Fatigue in PvP combat.

Glyphs

Glyph of the Inquisitor should now correctly be dealing self-damage against the Priest (with a chance to break crowd control effects) in PvP combat against enemy players with glyphed crowd control abilities that removes damage over time effects on the target.

Rogue

Assassination

Envenom should no longer incorrectly consume all of the Rogue's combo points if the ability misses or was dodged.

Subtlety

Hemorrhage's periodic effect should now be able to critically strike.

Quests

Talador

Socrethar's Demise: Resolved an issue that could cause Socrethar to become unattackable.

Legacy

Report to the King: Resolved an issue where completing this quest was incorrectly causing Hero's Call: Redridge Mountains! and My Son, the Prince to become unavailable

Warning the Warchief: Resolved an issue where completing this quest was incorrectly causing Machines of War and Enemies Below to become unavailable.

Creatures and NPCs

Frostfire Ridge

Iron Cannoneers no longer drop Iron Horde Scraps.

Gorgrond

Iron Banshee should now correctly award credit towards completing Assault on the Pit.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Dungeons

The Everbloom

Xeri'tac: Resolved an issue that could cause Venom-Crazed Pale One to not spawn in correctly.

PvP

Ashran

Fangraal and Kronus now costs 3000 Artifact Fragments to summon (up from 1000).

Items

Primal Spirits should now be dropping more frequently while harvesting mineral and herb nodes outside of the Garrison, from Skinning, and in a satchel obtained by completing the daily Fishing quest from the Garrison Fishing Shack.

Potions purchased from the Brawler's Guild are now bind on pickup.

Guide: Sharpshooting should now correctly have a chance to drop for Hunters from rare Draenor NPCs and creatures.

Kowalski's Music Box should now correctly apply its soothing effect to targets that are not in combat.

World Shrinker's effect is now removed when mounting up.

UI

Premade Groups should no longer display a Scenarios category for characters that are above level 90.

December 17

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Garrison Buildings

Frostwall Mines: Mine Guards should now scale with the player's character level.

Frostwall Mines Level 3: Mine Guards now have significantly more health and damage.

Classes

Mage

Talents

Prismatic Crystal used in PvP combat, now transfers only 75% of total damage on Critical Hits, and only 50% of total damage on Multistrikes. There's no change to the ability in PvE combat.

Warlock

Destruction

Havoc now has a base cooldown of 20 seconds (down from 25 seconds).

Creatures and NPCs

Zidormi in Dustwallow Marsh should now correctly send players back in time to visit old Theramore.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Satchel of Savage Mysteries now has a guaranteed chance to award a piece of Heroic Dungeon loot (item level 630 rare) appropriate for the character's loot specialization.

Developer Commentary: We’re aware of excessive queue times for Heroic Dungeons. To help players have a better experience in Dungeon Finder, we’re expanding the rewards for Satchel of Savage Mysteries to award Heroic Dungeon loot in addition to the guaranteed Augment Rune, and a chance to contain a mount, Follower enhancement token, Battle Pet, or Battle-Stone. The satchel will remain Bind on Account and we'll continue to monitor Dungeon Finder queues and iterate as needed to ensure a great experience for everyone.

Raids

Highmaul

The Butcher now has a chance to drop a Green Winter Hat.

Brackenspore: Elements of the fight, such as hostile fungus and beneficial mushrooms should now be visible from further away during the encounter on Mythic difficulty.

Twin Ogron: Resolved a situation where pulling Twin Ogron and having them despawn could cause the Imperator Mar'gok encounter to not work correctly on Mythic difficulty.

December 16

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Garrison Buildings

A hotfix in testing from December 11 for the Inn has been implemented. The achievement, Stay Awhile and Listen now only requires the character to complete 10 of the 20 Inn quests (down from all 20).

Creatures and NPCs

Shadowmoon Valley

Yggdrel now deals less damage with the Entangling Vine ability.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Messages for obtaining an Augment Rune are no longer broadcasting to the party or raid group.

Raids

Highmaul

Tectus' health has been reduced by about 15% when the raid is scaled to 10 players on Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic difficulties. As the raid scales up to a maximum of 30 players, Tectus' health for 30 players remains roughly unchanged from before this hotfix.

Professions

Enchanting

Mark of Blackrock can no longer trigger its effect for the first 40 seconds after equipping the weapon.

UI

Resolved an issue where having a player join the Dungeon Finder or Raid Finder group just as another player was leaving could cause the button to queue up for additional players to remain greyed out for the rest of the group.

Resolved an issue where the Darkmoon Faire was not showing up in the in-game calendar past December 2014.

December 15

Class Tuning Changes

Hunter

Beast Mastery

Improved Focus Fire now grants a 5% increase (up from 2%) to attack power for every stack of Frenzy that had been consumed.

Survival

Serpent Sting's damage has increased by 60%.

Monk

General

Stance of the Fierce Tiger now increases all damage dealt by 5% (down from 10%).

Rogue

Assassination

Venomous Wounds' damage has increased by 20%.

Combat

Blade Flurry now also strikes up to 4 additional nearby opponents for 35% of normal damage (up from 30%).

Subtlety

Backstab's damage has increased by 20%.

Hemorrhage's damage has increased by 30%.

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Map Icon for the Garrison should now appear correctly for characters that had undergone a faction change.

Alliance Tier 3 Garrison: Dungeoneer's Training Dummy for healing and damage have swapped places so melee classes are less likely to trigger the tanking dummy by accident.

Garrison Buildings

Barn: Captured beasts can now stack to 20 (up from not being stackable).

Dwarven Bunker/War Mill: Armor transmogrification items obtained from the Dwarven Bunker/War Mill are now truly account-bound and can be sent to other characters on the same Battle.net account.

Gladiator's Sanctum: Corrected an issue that allowed a losing player to claim loot from victor's chest when multiple players died near-simultaneously.

Stables: Corrected an issue where players could complete The Stable Master achievement without owning a Level 3 Stable.

Classes

Druid

Balance

Sunfall (Starfall modified by Glyph of the Solstice) should now also be dealing 33% less damage in PvP combat.

Sunfall should no longer incorrectly have a chance to trigger Nature's Vigil.

Hunter

Talents

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Chimera should now interact correctly with Glyph of Deterrence.

Mage

Talents

Greater Invisibility should now correctly be counting as dispelling two damage over time effects instead of canceling them.

Armor Sets

PvP 2-piece set bonus for Mages should now be correctly consuming stacks of the buff while casting Frostfire Bolt.

Paladin

Talents

Hand of Purity should no longer incorrectly affect damage over time abilities that are immune from this damage reduction effect.

Selfless Healer should now be correctly dispelled instead of having only 1 stack dispelled at a time.

Armor Sets

PvP 2-piece set bonus for Retribution Paladins, Righteous Determination should now be dispellable.

Quests

Frostfire Ridge

Assault on Magnarok: Increased the spawn rates for creatures and NPCs for the quest.

Flames of the Earth: Players are now able to free Magma Elementals without tap credit and completion credit for the quest is now shared amongst all characters in the party.

Nagrand

Removing the Reinforcements: Resolved an issue where the quest could not be completed if the character had already completed And Justice for Thrall.

THAELIN!: Resolved an issue where players may not be able to complete the quest if they had already completed And Justice for Thrall.

World Environment

Resolved an issue that could cause The August Celestials daily quests to not match up in a cross-realm zone.

Creatures and NPCs

A large number of rare creatures and NPCs on Draenor can now be tapped by players on both factions.

Gorgrond

Poundfist now has 40% more health and increased the upper limit on the number of players his health can scale to.

Spires of Arak

Befuddled Relic-Seeker, Highmaul Relic-Seeker, and Highmaul Skullcrusher should no longer drop dead after being pickpocketed.

Kargath Bladefist: Players should no longer be getting trapped in the tiger pit after defeating Kargath Bladefist.

Brackenspore: Creeping Moss' healing dealt to fungal spawn will now show up in the Combat Log.

Brackenspore: Burning Infusion now increases damage and healing dealt by 13% per stack (up from 10% per stack) and decays more slowly at a rate of 1 stack every 4 seconds (up from 1 stack every 2 seconds).

Ko'ragh: DPS caster trinkets should now correctly have a chance to trigger its effects on attacks that have been completely absorbed by Ko'ragh's Nullification Barrier.

Imperator Mar'gok's Mark of Chaos abilities should now be correctly applied to all characters regardless of range.

PvP

Ashran

PvP vendors in Stormshield and Warspear now have Pre-Mixed Pot of Noodles for sale to Pandaren characters.

Conquest Primal Gladiator trinkets have had their values adjusted proportionally to the Honor Primal Combatant trinkets.

Players are now removed from a Dungeon Finder or Raid Finder group upon accepting the queue to enter Ashran.

Addressed an additional issue that could cause faction Captains to stop spawning.

Events in Ashran should now be occurring more frequently.

A Few Artifact Fragments should no longer be awarding more reputation than intended.

Items

Everbloom Seed Pouch no longer affects other players.

Tome of the Clear Mind now stacks to 200 (up from 20).

December 11

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Garrison Buildings

Inn: Inn quests can now be completed on the spot without returning back to the Garrison.

Inn: The achievement, Stay Awhile and Listen now only requires the character to complete 10 of the 20 Inn quests (down from all 20).

Outposts

Note: The following changes to Outposts will take effect with next week's scheduled maintenance.

Reduced the cost for changing Garrison Outpost buildings in Nagrand to 500 gold.

Reduced the cost for changing Garrison Outpost buildings in Gorgrond, Talador, and Spires of Arak to 5,000 gold.

Changing Garrison Outpost buildings should now grant access to the building-specific questline for that zone, including building-specific follower(s).

PvP 2-piece set bonus for Enhancement Shaman now reduces the duration of all incoming crowd control effects by 25% (down from 50%).

Warlock

Affliction

Nightfall should no longer fail to trigger if the most recent target of Corruption dies.

Destruction

Chaos Bolt now deals 33% more damage in PvP combat.

Warrior

Protection

Shield Slam modified by Glyph of Shield Slam now only dispels 1 magical effect while the Warrior is in Defensive Stance.

Armor Sets

PvP 4-piece set bonus now generates 3 Rage for every 1% health lost (up from 1 Rage per 1%).

Quests

Frostfire Ridge

A Song of Frost and Fire: Players can no longer accept this quest if The Home of the Frostwolves is already in their quest log.

Winds of Change: Olin Umberhide should now return if he despawns for any reason.

Creatures and NPCs

Shadowmoon Valley

Shadowspeaker Niir should now always be attackable.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Raids

Highmaul

Brackenspore: Elements of the encounter should now still be visible from further away.

Twin Ogron: Pol's Arcane Ogron forms should now correctly use Arcane Charge based on the direction they're facing.

Imperator Mar'gok: Gorian Reavers now use their abilities more consistently, using Crush Armor every 6 seconds (instead of 5-8 seconds), and Kick to the Face every 20 seconds (instead of 15-30 seconds).

Imperator Mar'gok: Gorian Reavers now deal 15% less damage on all difficulty modes.

Dungeons

Grimrail Depot

Core of Iron should now correctly only be available on Heroic difficulty.

Railmaster Rocketspark: Characters should no longer be taken out of stealth effects at the start of the encounter.

Upper Blackrock Spire

Ragewing the Untamed: Blackhand Doomcutter should no longer be incorrectly dropping for characters that use Strength in Personal loot mode.

PvP

Ashran

Fangraal and Kronus no longer scales their health based the number of players they're fighting. Each faction guardian's health now scales based on the number of enemy players active at the time when they're summoned.

Professions

Alchemy

Based on player feedback, a number of adjustments have been made to Alchemy recipes. Combat potion recipes no longer requires Crescent Oil and meat/fish, and will require herbs instead. Flask recipes now use more herbs, increasing the number of herbs needed from one type of herb to two.

Mark of Blackrock now triggers its effect more frequently, and can occur when the character is below 60% health (up from being below 50% health), and can also trigger from blocking an attack or absorbing damage.

Mark of the Shattered Hand now triggers its bleed effect less frequently.

Jewelcrafting

Based on player feedback, a number of adjustments have been made to Jewelcrafting recipes. Tier 1 gem recipes now requires more ore and less herbs. Tier 2 gem recipes will no longer requires herbs and instead require a tier 1 gem.

Resolved an issue where Druids that performed a Character Boost would be unable to learn the Incarnation talent until they have completed Tanaan Jungle.

December 10

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Resolved a situation that could cause ore and mining carts in a player's Garrison to despawn.

Resolved an issue where players may sometimes not correctly accrue rested experience when entering their Garrisons.

Garrison Invasions

Players defeating the final boss that pushes their invasion score to over 1000 should now correctly be able to receive credit for obtaining a gold rating.

Classes

Druid

Balance

Shooting Stars should no longer fail to trigger if the most recent target of Moonfire or Sunfire dies.

Hunter

General

Resolved a number of additional situations that could cause Kill Shot (Beast Mastery, Marksmanship) to not correctly reset its cooldown.

Monk

General

Transcendence: Transfer should now continue to correctly reference new transfer locations after multiple uses.

Priest

Talents

Insanity's (Shadow) snare should now be correctly affected by abilities that remove or reduces the duration of snare effects.

Rogue

Subtlety

Honor Among Thieves should no longer cause Rogues with the Anticipation talent to stand up after receiving a Critical heal.

Creatures and NPCs

Citizens of Dalaran! Raise your eyes to the skies and observe! Rhonin, Leader of the Kirin Tor, should now be reciting their spoken lines to characters within a much smaller radius in the streets of the city of Dalaran. Note that his text... his text are still worth reading and continue to still be visible to those within the city.

Rare creatures and NPCs are now immune to the Enslave Demon and Control Undead effect.

The Butcher's Heavy Handed attack should now be correctly counted as an attack for abilities that require an attack to trigger its effects.

The Butcher should no longer become unresponsive if a Rogue in stealth gets too close.

Brackenspore: Unit frames for Living Mushrooms and Rejuvenating Mushrooms should now display properly.

Imperator Mar'gok: Arcane Aberrations that have been Banished should now continue to use Collapsing Entity.

Imperator Mar'gok: Added a portal transporting players back to The Coliseum from Throne of the Imperator after Imperator Mar'gok has been defeated.

Dungeons

Shadowmoon Burial Grounds

The portal that appears after Ner'zhul has been defeated should now transport players back to the beginning of the Dungeon.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

The level 90 bracket has been merged into the level 91-99 bracket.

Priests should no longer be able to continue to hold onto the flag while in Spirit of Redemption form.

Rated Battleground flag carriers in a tanking specialization should no longer be taking more damage than flag carriers in a non-tanking specialization. Previously, flag carrying tanks took 50% more damage and that stacked with an additional 25% damage received while in RBGs (additional 75% damage received total). This change removes the 50% additional damage taken while carrying a flag in an RBG.

Professions

Enchanting

Resolved an issue that could cause Enchanter's Illusions to be reverted from an item.

Items

General goods vendors across Draenor now offer Crystal Vials and Enchanting Vellums for sale.

Consumable items that summons a fast mount can no longer be used while in a Challenge Mode.

Elixir of Deep Earth now increases armor by 67 (down from 268).

Primal Spirit is now only eligible for Greed rolls in Need Before Greed loot mode.

Restorative Waves now increases all healing done by 30% (up from 25%).

Talents

Elemental Blast's damage has increased by 10%.

Warrior

Fury

Bloodthirst's damage has increased by 20%, and has an additional 40% chance to be a critical strike (up from 30%).

Execute's (Fury) damage has increased by 10%.

Raging Blow's damage has increased by 33%.

Wild Strike's damage has increased by 32%.

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Ashran has been re-enabled as a potential daily strategic assault choice. This reverts a change from November 21.

Garrison Buildings

Work orders for the following Horde buildings (Mine, Herb Garden, Goblin Workshop, War Mill, and Trading Post) and Alliance buildings (Dwarven Bunker, Gnomish Gearworks, Trading Post) should now correctly contribute credit towards the achievements for Working Some Orders and Working More Orders.

Gem Boutique: Followers assigned to the building should now always offer a daily quest.

Gladiator's Sanctum: Work orders were awarding much more gold and items than intended. The amount of items and gold awarded has been reduced to be more comparable to other buildings.

Herb Garden: Visitors can no longer harvest the player's Frostweed.

Salvage Yard: Awards for salvage have been split into 3 tiers based on the level of the Garrison Mission (Levels 90-94, Levels 95-99, and Level 100). Additionally, the mission needs to be successful for a chance to receive salvage with Level 100 missions having a guaranteed chance on success.

Garrison Invasions

Shadow Council Invasion: Concubine of Sin no longer awards points when defeated.

Quests

Shadowmoon Valley

The Fate of Karabor: Yrel should now always assist the player with Krull. Additionally, Krull's Brutal Smash now has a reduced range of 6 yards.

Talador

Not In Your House: Fort Wrynn Laborers should now always flee after defeating Ripgut.

Send Them Running: Peons should now always flee after defeating Vicegnaw.

Creatures and NPCs

Grom'kar NPCs in the Frostfire Iron Siegeworks and Gorgrond Blackrock Foundry areas should now correctly have a chance to drop Iron Horde scraps for characters with a Dwarven Bunker / War Mill in their Garrisons.

Shadowmoon Valley

Shinri should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Raids

Highmaul

Tectus: Visual markers for Earthen Pillar, Fracture, Meteoric Earthspire, and Radiating Poison should now be easier to see.

Tectus: Meteoric Earthspire now deals less damage on Normal and Heroic difficulties.

Tectus' targeting circle for Crystalline Barrage should now still be visible for users with projected textures disabled.

Twin Ogron's Fierce Disposition, Savage Disposition, and Aggressive Disposition should now be showing up in combat logs.

Imperator Mar'gok's Arcane mines for Destructive Resonance should now be easier to see for users with projected textures disabled.

Imperator Mar'gok: Visuals for Destructive Resonance should now be visible from anywhere in the Throne of the Imperator area.

Imperator Mar'gok's Arcane Wrath ability should no longer incorrectly jump to a player that has been Branded during Phase 4 with the Power of Replication.

Dungeons

Auchindoun

Disabled the cutscene for Teron'gor that plays after defeating Azzakel on Challenge Mode.

Skyreach

Ranjit should no longer occasionally target the tank with Lens Flare and Windwall.

PvP

Ashran

Honor and reputation increases for turning in Artifact Fragments first noted on December 3, are now out of testing and have been implemented.

Disabled health regeneration for Kronus, Fangraal, Grand Marshal Tremblade, and High Warlord Volrath when they leash or drop out of combat.

Creatures outside of Ashran should no longer incorrectly have a chance to drop Artifact Fragments.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Rated Battlegrounds should no longer incorrectly be awarding PvP gear and items that require reputation with Vol'jin's Spear or Wrynn's Vanguard to equip.

Professions

Archeology

Pristine Ancestral Talisman and Pristine Cracked Ivory Idol should no longer be incorrectly awarded again if the character has already obtained the item.

Items

Follower Weapon and Armor enhancements can now stack up to 20.

Temporary buffs that increase Critical Strike should now correctly increase Parry through Riposte for tanking specializations.

Cracked Potion Vials should no longer drop for non-Alchemists.

Everburning Candle was buffed much more than intended. The amount of mana granted has been reduced to 10,456 (down from 20,916). Additional information on the reasoning for this change can be found in the forum thread: Everburning Candle Changes.

Gently Squeezed Toad is no longer usable while in a Challenge Mode Dungeon.

Players entering Ashran from a PvE realm should now be correctly flagged for PvP.

Characters should no longer be able to resurrect at the King's Road graveyard if their faction isn't in control of that point.

Resolved an issue where faction Captains may not be spawning correctly.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Resolved an issue where if a Flag Carrier was standing in the area where their team's flag would be when it is returned, they'd be unable to capture the flag until they leave and return to the area again.

Arathi Basin: Characters on the Alliance team in a Rated Battleground should now be able to be resurrected by their Spirit Healer at the Blacksmith graveyard if their team is in control of it.

Eye of the Storm: Characters in a Rated Battleground will now return to their team's starting position when releasing, regardless of what bases their team controls.

The Battle for Gilneas: Resolved issues where Spirit Healers may sometimes not spawn in correctly when a point has been captured.

Professions

First Aid

Antiseptic Bandage no longer requires Sea Scorpion Segments to craft.

Jewelcrafting

Critical Strike Taladite should no longer incorrectly require a Taladite Crystal to craft.

Items

Consuming a Draenor potion, elixir, or flask should no longer cause the character to break out of stealth.

Mantid Elixir now provides a more reasonable increase to armor.

Primal Combatant's Drape of Contemplation now provide a bonus to Multistrike instead of Critical Strike to differentiate it from the Drape of Meditation.

Primal Gladiator's Drape of Contemplation now provide a bonus to Multistrike instead of Critical Strike to differentiate it from the Drape of Meditation.

December 4

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Resolved an issue where players may become stuck or be disconnected while attempting to visit other Garrisons.

[Requires a realm restart.] Salvage Yard: Special transmogrification items obtained from crates of salvage are now Rare (blue) quality to help distinguish them. Additionally, these items are now able to be disenchanted.

Disturbed Podlings and Goren Protectors that spawns inside of the Garrison should now be lootable if they're killed by an NPC (like a Bodyguard). An additional hotfix is being worked on that will also apply this while encountering Disturbed Podlings and Goren Protectors outside of the Garrison as well.

Garrison Buildings

Barn: Iron Trap, Improved Iron Trap, and Deadly Iron Trap should no longer be incorrectly triggering when other players run over it.

Dwarven Bunker / War Mill Level 2: Added a 2 hour grace period for cosmetic gear purchases from this building, allowing characters to sell the item back for a full refund. Note that utilizing the item for transmogrification will remove this grace period.

A Centurion Without a Cause: Defeating Woodfist far away from High Centurion Tormmok should no longer cause him to remain hostile to the character and allow players to complete the quest.

Assault on the Pit: Increased the spawn rate of creatures and NPCs for this quest.

Bonus Objective: The Forgotten Caves: Gorg the Host really should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.

Strike While the Iron is Hot: Players joining a version of this quest that's already in-progress should now be able to receive completion credit.

Nagrand

My Precious!: Resolved an issue where players may sometimes not receive completion credit for the quest. Additionally, players that have adandoned the quest should now be able to see Bazwix to reobtain the quest.

Ring of Trials quests can no longer be completed while in a Siege Tank or Demolisher. Seriously, that's not even a fair fight.

Goldmane the Skinner: Taking the cage key without opening the cage to let Goldmane out no longer prevents Bolkar the Cruel from respawning.

Legendary Ring Quest Line

Upgrading the ring should now correctly remove the old ring from the player's inventory.

World Environment, Creatures, and NPCs

Rare creatures and NPCs are now immune to the Dominate Mind ability.

Frostfire Ridge

Time-Warped Tower can now be looted by Alliance characters.

Shadowmoon Valley

Darktide Rylakinator-3000's attacks now deal more damage.

Talador

NPCs in the Aruuna area should no longer cause Horde characters to become stuck in combat.

Burning Eye's Eye of the Legion ability now has a reduced range of 30 yards (down from 100).

Credit for completing the achievement I Saw Solis should now be correctly awarded.

Upper Blackrock Spire

Kyrak's Rejuvenating Serum now has a duration of 9 seconds (down from 12 seconds). On Heroic difficulty and Challenge Mode, the ability now heals for the 8% (down from 10%).

Ragewing the Untamed's Engulfing Fire ability can now hit players that are not in line-of-sight.

PvP

Conquest Points have been converted into Honor Points before the start of the season.

Conquest Quartermasters Marshal Gabriel (Alliance) and General Aevd (Horde) have reinstated to sell Conquest gear. This reverts the hotfix from November 17.

Cross-realm groups are now able to enter Ashran together.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Strand of the Ancients should now correctly award players with a Gold Strongbox for winning.

Professions

Level-up items created by some professions no longer use reagents that required a daily cooldown to create and are no longer soulbound. To compensate for this change, basic reagent requirements have been increased and vendor buyback price for those items have been reduced now that they're less rare.

Blingtron 5000 should now correctly resume offering their daily quest after defeating another Blingtron.

Inscription

Ink Traders should now accept Warbinder's Ink in exchange for other inks.

Items

Many epic trinkets in Draenor received a buff to ensure a proper progression path through the Raid tier. This change affects world-drop BoE epic trinkets, Inscription-crafted epic trinkets, and trinkets that drop from Highmaul and Blackrock Foundry. Further information on this change could be found in the forum thread titled: Trinket Hotfixes.

Note that Scabbard of Kyanos was unintentionally buffed much more than intended and its stats will be reverted to a more reasonable level.

Missing Class Glyphs

The following Glyphs were not available to be crafted through Inscription and have been added to vendors in Stormshield and Warspear. Alliance players can purchase them from Joao Calhandro, and Horde players can purchase them from Maru'sa. The glyphs are unique and bind on acquire.

Glyph of the Solstice (Druid)

Glyph of Flying Fists (Monk)

Glyph of Cleanse (Paladin)

Glyph of Purification (Priest)

Glyph of Purify Spirit (Shaman)

Glyph of Frostbrand Weapon (Shaman) will be automatically learned at level 75.

A number of items with no function are now listed as gray/junk quality item.

Alchemical Catalyst is now an Uncommon quality item.

Aviana's Feather now only works in outdoor Draenor areas, and other outdoor areas that allow flight.

Metamorphic Crystal has no function is now listed as gray/junk quality item.

N.U.K.U.L.A.R. Target Painter no longer works during a Brawler's Guild match.

Oralius' Whispering Crystal no longer provides a buff to Spirit.

Ultimate Gnomish Army Knife can no longer be used while in an Arena or Battleground.

Mine Levels 2-3: Mining Carts now contains more Primal Spirits and Archeology fragments. The amount of ore given by each mining node has been adjusted to a more appropriate level.

Classes

Death Knight

Talents

Breath of Sindragosa should now work correctly with the Plaguebearer talent, extending the duration of diseases when used.

Monk

Talents

Chi Explosion's visuals should now be more visible and the ability's sound effects should no longer be too quiet.

Paladin

Holy

Beacon of Light's sound effects should no longer be excessively loud.

Quests

Shadowmoon Valley

Assault on Socrethar's Rise: Sargerei Binders should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.

Talador

Dreadpiston: Dreadpiston should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.

Nagrand

Assault on the Gorian Proving Grounds: Increased the spawn rate of creatures and NPCs in the quest area.

Challenge of the Masters: Warlord Dharl of the Thrice-Bloodied Blade really should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.

Garrison

Items obtained from Garrison Mission above level 615 now have a chance to be Warforged, contain a socket, or tertiary stats.

Lumber Mill: Legacy of the Ancients has increased spawn rates of Medium Timber around the Botani Marsh area in Shadowmoon Valley.

Creatures and NPCs

Shadowmoon Valley

Increased the spawn rate of creatures and NPCs in the Mok'gol Watchpost area.

Talador

Brutag Grimblade should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.

Nagrand

Hallvalor Blademaster should no longer be chasing players for excessively long distances.

Katsuo should no longer be incorrectly using Wind Walk to target players that they're not in combat with.

Ashran

Fangraal and Kronus now have 25% less health.

Grand Marshal Tremblade and High Warlord Volrath now scales their health based on the number of players in the zone.

Alliance captains should now be retreating in the correct direction.

Resolved an issue where multiple captains dying at the same time could cause an incorrect number of captains to respawn.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Dungeons

After a lengthy discussion with the Postmaster regarding their mailing habits, the Postmaster should no longer be mailing back gray quality items and money that haven't been looted by characters.

Resolved an issue where completing a Warlords of Draenor Dungeon was incorrectly being crediting progress towards the achievement, Queuing Spree.

Grimrail Depot

Fire effects for Slag Blast and Slag Tanker should now be visible across all graphics settings.

Iron Docks

Grimrail Enforcers: Resolved a looting issue that could occur depending on the order that Ahri'ok Dugru, Makogg Emberblade, and Neesa Nox are defeated in.

Skulloc: Resolved a looting issue that could occur depending on the order that Skulloc, Koramar, and Zoggosh were defeated in.

The Everbloom

Mutagen can now stack up to 10 times (down from 20) and have a maximum duration of 1 minute.

Ancient Protectors: Shaper's Fortitude has been removed on Heroic difficulty.

Upper Blackrock Spire

Orebender Gor'ashan's visuals for his Electric Pulse should now correctly reflect the ability's area-of-effect.

Challenge Mode

Items contained within the Challenger's Strongbox now have a chance to be Warforged, contain a socket, or tertiary stats.

PvP

Ashran

Class book abilities should now be correctly removed when leaving Ashran.

Professions

Crafted gear and weapons received an item level boost. Tooltips for the items will still display the incorrect (older) item level.

Crafted Tier-2 weapons now have an item level of 645 (up from 640).

Crafted Tier-3 weapons now have an item level of 660 (up from 655).

Crafted Tier-3 gear now have an item level of 670 (up from 665).

Enchanting

Rare (blue) quality items now have a greatly increased chance to disenchant into Draenic Dust instead of a Small Luminous Shard. Additionally, characters with the Enchanting profession should receive more Draenic Dust while disenchanting an item.

Tiger Palm (Brewmaster, Windwalker) now extends up to 130% of its normal duration when refreshed, similar to periodic effects.

Brewmaster

Guard's damage absorption shield now absorbs 100% more damage.

Stance of the Sturdy Ox now defers 30% of damage taken to be divided over 10 seconds (up from 20%).

Glyphs

Glyph of Keg Smash should now correctly increase the range of Keg Smash.

Paladin

Protection

Mastery: Divine Bulwark now increases Shield of the Righteous' damage reduction by 0.5% per point, down from 0.75% per point.

Grand Crusader now also has a 30% chance to trigger its effect from Crusader Strike and Hammer of the Righteous.

Shield of the Righteous now reduces physical damage taken by 25% (up from 20%).

Shaman

General

Chain Lightning's damage has been increased by 20%.

Lava Burst's (Elemental, Restoration) damage has been increased by 35%.

Lava Burst now has a chance equal to the character's Critical Strike chance to trigger an additional Multistrike. This is separate from the standard two chances for Lava Burst to Multistrike; one Lava Burst could trigger up to three Multistrikes (two standard Multistrikes, plus one more from Critical Strike chance).

Enhancement

Lava Lash's damage has been increased by 20%.

Stormstrike's damage has been increased by 20%.

Warlock

Affliction

Agony's damage has been increased by 20%.

Unstable Affliction's damage has been increased by 20%.

Demonology

Shadow Bolt's damage has been increased by 25%.

Soul Fire's damage has been increased by 25%.

Touch of Chaos' damage has been increased by 25%.

Destruction

Chaos Bolt's damage has been increased by 8%.

Conflagrate's damage has been increased by 8%.

Immolate's damage has been increased by 8%.

Incinerate's damage has been increased by 8%.

Rain of Fire's damage has been reduced by 60% and no longer generates Burning Embers.

Shadowburn's damage has been increased by 8%.

Talents

Demonbolt's (Demonology) damage has been increased by 10%.

Soulburn: Haunt (Affliction) now extends up to 130% of its normal duration when refreshed, similar to periodic effects.

Warrior

Protection

Revenge's damage has been reduced by 20%.

Shield Slam's damage has been reduced by 20%.

November 24

World Environment

The time that corpses persist in the world has been restored back to their former durations.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Dungeons

Resolved an issue where players were unable to queue through Dungeon Finder while in Warspear or Stormshield.

Upper Blackrock Spire

During the Commander Tharbek encounter, Black Iron Guards no longer join in the fight when he is at 10% health.

Commander Tharbek should no longer be using Iron Axe, Imbued Iron Axe, and Iron Reaver within 4 seconds of each other.

Orebender Gor'ashan's Electric Pulse should now correctly hit players that are standing on a Rune Conduit.

Son of the Beast's Fiery Trail should no longer persist and continue to damaging pets after being defeated.

Items

Miner’s Coffee should no longer be incorrectly applying its speed buff outside of the Garrison's mine.

Swapblaster should no longer be incorrectly swapping locations with targets other than another party member.

November 21

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Characters are now guaranteed to have level 90-94 Garrison Missions available if they have Followers in the level 90-94 range and level 95-99 Garrison Missions available if they have Followers in the level 95-99 range.

Work Orders should now also work with materials and reagents that are in the character's bank and reagent bank.

Temporarily disabled Ashran as a daily quest choice while we continue to troubleshoot issues with some of the daily quests being offered.

Followers

Leeroy Jenkins: Resolved an issue where characters that were dead or in Spirit of Redemption form when completing the achievement Leeeeeeeeeeeeeroy...? may sometimes not receive Leeroy Jenkins as a follower.

Quests

Shadowmoon Valley

Assault on Darktide Roost: Increased the respawn rates of creatures and NPCs needed for the quest.

Gorgrond

Assault on the Pit: Blackrock Foundry Assaulted credit is no longer being awarded when using the Iron Troop Launcher.

Shredder vs. Saberon: Resolved an issue where characters that leave the quest area immediately after receiving credit may be unable to turn-in the quest.

Spires of Arak

Assault on Skettis: The debuff Infected Talons placed by various creatures in the area for this quest no longer stacks.

Tarnished Bronze: Spirit of Kairozdormu's Time Bomb ability should no longer be hitting players that aren't in combat with him in a different phase.

World Environment

Portals leading to the Dark Portal in Blasted Lands have been added next to Archmage Khadgar in Stormwind and Orgrimmar.

Removed an erroneous treasure marker displayed by using the Spires of Arak Treasure Map for a Reagent Pouch that did not actually exist.

Creatures and NPCs

Increased the spawn rates for creatures and NPCs across a number of questing areas for level 100 daily quests.

Reduced the spawn rate of creatures and NPCs laying siege in the areas around Shattrath City.

Gruuk has moved to a new location where they can be seen by both Horde and Alliance players.

High Warlord Volrath and Grand Marshal Tremblade now only award 50 Honor for defeating them (down from 500).

Nagrand Prowler 's Leap for the Kill ability now has a shorter stun duration and smaller damage radius.

Nok-Karosh's drop, Garn Nighthowl now only allows players in a party or Raid to roll greed.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Dungeons

Reverted the change to the default loot mode for random matchmade groups in Dungeon Finder back to Personal loot.

In Personal loot, each player in the group will now always receive an item from the final dungeon boss.

In Need Before Greed, the dungeon boss will now drop 3 items to be shared among the group as desired, up from 2 previously.

Full premade groups queuing in Dungeon Finder now defaults to Need Before Greed and they can change the loot mode if they want.

Call to Arms for in-demand roles have been reeanabled for Dungeon Finder. Completing the dungeon awards a Satchel of Savage Mysteries with a chance to contain new treasures and it will always contain an Augment Rune, a tradeable item that provides a consumable buff that is ordinarily only available through Raid Finder.

An award of 50 Garrison Resources has been added for completing the first Random Warlords of Draenor Heroic Dungeon of the day.

Orebender Gor'ashan: Mobs from other parts of the Dungeon should no longer be joining the fight during the encounter.

Challenge Mode

Aviana's Feather should no longer be usable while in a Challenge Mode dungeon.

Proving Grounds

Statistics for Basic Healer (Endless) should no longer be incorrectly displaying under Basic Tank (Endless).

PvP

Increased the amount of players that can be in Ashran to 150.

Primal Combatant PvP trinkets awarded from Gold Strongboxes should now contain stats that are more appropriate for the character's specialization.

Primal PvP trinkets should now be eligible to grant players the Gladiator's Distinction set bonus.

Primal Honor PvP gear should now correctly have a set bonus.

Items

Gnomish Net Launcher now has a level 91 requirement to equip and provides a more appropriate bonus to Versatility.

Invisibility Field's effect is now on a shared cooldown with other invisibility effects.

Bug Fixes

Resolved an issue where Draenor Perks for characters may sometimes not be saving correctly.

November 18

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Fishing Shack: The building should now correctly still provide a bonus while it's under construction.

Frostwall Mine: Fixed a number of True Iron Deposits that were spawning inside of pillars and terrain.

Mage Tower/Spirit Lodge: Characters under a shapeshifting effect should now be able to use an Ogre Waygate to return to their Garrisons.

Salvage Yard: The building should now correctly still provide a bonus while it's under construction.

Outposts

Nagrand: The building bonus for having a Corral should no longer incorrectly dismount Herbalists while harvesting resource nodes.

Spires of Arak: Bonus for the building should now switch correctly when changing buildings for the outpost.

Followers

Followers that are 3 or more levels below the mission level now receive 10% of the mission XP and bonus XP (up from 0%). Additional information on how Followers and mission level affects their XP gain can be found in a forum thread titled Followers and Garrison Missions XP.

Classes

Druid

Balance

Empowered Moonkin's clearcasting effect should no longer be incorrectly consumed if it's triggered while the Moonkin is in the middle of casting a spell.

Mage

Talents

Comet Storm should now correctly belong to the Frost school and is no longer usable if that school is locked.

Paladin

Talents

Holy Shield should now correctly deal damage when blocking normal attacks as well.

Quests

Bonus Objective: The Forgotten Caves: Gorg the Host should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.

Bonus Objective: The Howling Crag: Further increased the spawn rates of Pale Orcs and Rylak Eggs.

For the Children!: Manastorm's Duplicator should now be correctly awarded to characters that complete the quest.

Moving In: Characters that abandon the quest should now have an easier time reacquiring the quest and resume their progress on the main quest line.

Ogre Diplomacy: Players that have completed Into the Heart of Madness should no longer sometimes be placed into an incorrect phase and be unable to complete the quest.

Safety Measures: Increased the spawn rate of bog denizens.

Shadowmoon Invasion! is now automatically removed from the character's quest log if they upgrade to a Tier 3 Garrison as this quest is only available for Tier 2 Garrisons.

Skimming Off The Top: Increased the drop rates for Volatile Oil.

Strike While the Iron is Hot: Blocked off the entrance to the Iron Docks so players won't accidentally wander out of the quest area and wind up getting lost.

The Defense of Karabor: Players resurrecting at a graveyard during this quest should no longer be immediately attacked by Iron Horde NPCs.

The Iron Wolf: Players should now be able to receive completion credit if they've died and released during the quest.

Thunderlord Invasion!: The quest is now automatically removed from the character's quest log if they upgrade to a Tier 3 Garrison as this quest is only available for Tier 2 Garrisons.

Developer Commentary: The vendors' offerings were previously tied to the Highmaul raid unlock, but we wanted to make sure that players have useful items to spend their Apexis Crystals on, rather than positioning them exclusively as a catch-up item vendor. The final tier of Flawless gear (item level 655) will now unlock when the Highmaul raid becomes available, rather than when Blackrock Foundry becomes available.

Increased the spawn rates for creatures and NPCs in the Skettis Ruins area in Spires of Arak. [Requires a realm restart.] Additionally, resolved an issue where some creatures were incorrectly sharing loot with other players.

Grizzled Frostwolf Veteran's icon should no longer persist on the mini map after being defeated.

Rangari Jonaa now has a cooldown on their Scatter Shot ability.

Rotcap's icon should no longer persist on the mini map after being defeated.

Typhon's icon should no longer persist on the mini map after being defeated.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Characters with Warlords PvP gear that had its secondary item level activated due to being in PvP combat temporarily disqualifies them from queuing for Dungeons and Raid Finder. It can take up to 20 seconds after ending PvP combat before the character will be eligible to queue up normally.

Upper Blackrock Spire

During the Commander Tharbek encounter, players should no longer be kept in a constant state of combat between waves.

Resolved an issue where players could get stuck on a flight path while attempting to fly into their Garrisons.

Followers

Hulda Shadowblade should now be correctly awarded to players that have completed the quest, Standing United.

Classes

Warlock

Talents

Grimoire of Supremacy's summoned Terrorguards and Abyssals should now correctly have the Avoidance ability.

Quests

Articles of the Fallen: Players that have already completed To the Garrison should now be able to see Kal'gor the Honorable to complete the quest.

Battle in Ashran: The quest now requires players to obtain 100 Artifact Fragments and go to Shadow Hunter Ukambe (Horde) or Scout Valdez (Alliance) to complete the quest.

Battle of Thunder Pass: Dying or leaving the area during the middle of the Battle of Thunder Pass event should no longer prevent players from completing the event.

Bled Dry: Cages can now be opened by multiple players simultaneously.

Bushwhacker: Resolved an issue where players that have already completed A Heavy Helping Hand would be unable to turn in the quest.

Challenge of the Masters: Warlord Dharl of the Thrice-Bloodied Blade should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.

Draenor's Secret Power: Completion of this quest is now required before being able to move onto the next step of the Legendary quest chain. For characters that skipped this quest, completion of this quest has also been made into a requirement before being eligible for the next upgrade.

Fate of Karabor: Players joining a version of this quest that's already in-progress should now be able to receive completion credit.

Honor Has Its Rewards: Resolved an issue where Farseer Drek'Thar may sometimes not accept quest turn-ins.

Last Steps: Players joining a version of this quest that's already in-progress should now be able to receive completion credit.

Sol Sisters: Sol-Shaper Krashyx should no longer get stuck in evade mode.

The Battle for Shattrath: Players joining a version of this quest that's already in-progress should now be able to receive completion credit.

The Debt We Share: Players that are mounted should now be able to receive completion credit for this quest.

The Infested: Resolved an issue where players that have already completed A Heavy Helping Hand would be unable to turn in the quest.

The Iron Wolf: Added another way for characters to obtain The Iron Wolf invasion quest for characters that upgraded to a Tier 3 Garrison before completing the main Frostfire questline.

The Razorbloom: Resolved an issue where players that have already completed A Heavy Helping Hand would be unable to turn in the quest.

The Voice of Iyu: Resolved an issue where players that have already completed A Heavy Helping Hand would be unable to turn in the quest.

Creatures and NPCs

Grand Marshal Tremblade should now drop a Gleaming Ashmaul Strongbox for Horde characters when they're defeated.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Dungeons

Increased the amount of experience awarded for completing a Draenor level-up dungeon (Bloodmaul Slag Mines, Iron Docks, Auchindoun, and Skyreach) to be more rewarding.

Items looted from normal Level-100 dungeons now have a level requirement of 100 instead of 97.

Iron Docks

Players should no longer be incorrectly receiving credit for completing the Take Cover! achievement without actually completing the achievement.

Attempted to resolve an issue where Skulloc may sometimes not grant loot.

Slag Mines

Players that are dead should now correctly still receive credit for completing the achievement Come With Me If You Want to Live.

The Everbloom

Coagulated Genesaur Blood is now correctly flagged as a damage dealer trinket.

Challenge Mode

Salyin Battle Banner is no longer eligible to be used during Challenge Modes.

Resolved an issue where a realm may sometimes not have a Challenge Mode daily quest available.

Auchindoun: Reduced the amount of enemies to kill to 48 (down from 50).

Skyreach: Time needed to achieve a gold rating has been increased to 17 minutes (up from 15 minutes). Times for silver and bronze rating have been adjusted accordingly.

An item now needs to be at least item level 560 or above before being eligible to be scaled up to 650 in level 100 Battlegrounds and Arenas.

Items

The following items are now uncommon quality (green) so there's less award pop-ups when retrieving the them from Garrison work orders. There's been no change to the item's functionality or availability.

Primal Spirit

Savage Blood

Burnished Leather

Gearspring Parts

Hexweave Cloth

Metamorphic Crystal

Taladite Crystal

Truesteel Ingot

War Paints

Blackfire Scepter now grants a more modest increase to Intellect.

Bloodwood Wand now grants a less astronomical bonus to Spell Power.

Oralius' Whispering Crystal now increases all stats by 100 (down from 200).

Shieldtronic Shield should now correctly create a damage absorption shield instead of reflecting the damage back at an attacker.

Bug Fix

Resolved an issue where boosting characters that have XP disabled could wind up being unable to level.

Auchindoun: Players should now be able to take a Soul Transporter to get back to Teron'gor if the entire party died after defeating him.

PvP

Coliseum Champion's Spoils and Gleaming Ashmaul Strongboxes should no longer incorrectly have a chance to contain Epic quality PvP weapons.

Professions

Characters with over 600 skill should no longer continue to find catch-up items for the respective profession.

Items

Excavated Highmaul Thingamabob, Fungus-Infected Hydra Lung, Pulsating Brain of No'losh, and Thornmother Eye can now trigger its effect from non-healing spells as well.

Resolved an issue causing the Mists of Pandaria Legendary Cloaks and Metagems to remain effective for level 100 characters.

November 14

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Mine Level 2: Mining carts should now be easier to spot and should contain more than 1 piece of ore.

Followers

Artificer Romuul: Resolved an issue where characters were not receiving the quest.

Classes

Druid

Balance

Resolved an issue where the balance cycle may incorrectly force the Druid to stand up.

Quests

Defense of Karabor: Resolved an issue where characters may not receive completion credit for the quest.

I See Dead People: Resolved an issue where Bryan Finn may become unresponsive.

Kaelynara Sunchaser: Resolved an issue where characters were unable to return to their bodies in Spirit Form if they die inside the Jorune Mines.

Leave Nothing Behind!: Kur'ak the Binder now spawns more frequently.

Mulverick's Plight: Increased the drop rate for Mulverick's Axe.

Ogre Diplomacy: Increased the spawn rates of the Ango'rosh Ogres.

Save Wolf Home: Gronnstalker Korhol, Beastmaster Trokar, and Giantslayer Zhakta should now spawn more frequently. Additionally, resolved an issue where characters may be unable to complete profession quests while this quest is active.

The Defense of Karabor: Resolved an issue where completing this quest may cause characters to be unable to progress if they're also on the quest for The Righteous March.

Creatures

Echo of Murmur now spawns more frequently.

Made a pass on a number of rare creatures to allow multiple players to receive credit for personal loot if they helped defeat them.

Reduced the density of Squirrels in Nagrand and, critters and Icespine Hatchlings in Frostfire Ridge.

November 13

Update 3: 09:30pm PST

Classes

Monk

Brewmaster

Resolved an issue where Keg Smash may sometimes not generate Chi when used.

Quests

Artificer Romuul: Resolved an issue where players may sometimes not receive this quest after completing the Embaari Defense Crystal event.

Book Burning: Shadowborne Dementor should now always drop a Shadow Council Spellbook.

Shivertail's Den: Made a change to make it easier to receive credit for "Find Shivertail's Mother".

The Great Salvation: Draenei prisoners should spawn more frequently now.

The Warlord's Guard: Increased the spawn rates for Thunk, Gullok, and Splorg.

These Colors Don't Run: Characters now receive credit towards planting a Frostwolf Banner when they defeat or help in defeating a Bladespire Ogre with the exception of Bladespire Mauler, Chef, Boarbuster, Ogron, and Goresnout.

Wrath of Gronn: Increased the spawn rate for Captive Gronns.

Creatures and NPCs

Collision geometry has been added to Drek'Thar, Thrall, and Gazlowe in Frostfire Ridge.

Gorg the Host should now allow multiple players to receive credit for defeating it.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Resolved an issue where item levels for Battlegrounds, Arenas, and Skirmishes brackets below level 100 were not scaling correctly.

Items

Epic rings that are a part of the Legendary quest line can no longer be disenchanted.

Resolved an issue where the Eclipse indicator in the UI can sometimes not match the Druid's current Balance power.

Quests

Back to Work / Looking for Lumber: Greatly increased the number of trees available to mark for both Horde and Alliance versions of the quest. Additionally, Lunarfall Ravens respawn much more quickly now.

Closing the Door: Resolved an issue where Void Portals may sometimes not close correctly.

Honor Has Its Rewards: The Shamanstone no longer requires characters to interact with it and will grant its blessing to players that are nearby.

Quakefist: Quakefist now spawns outside of the cave, making it easier to locate.

Ship Salvage / What We Need: Drudgeboat Salvage should now respawn more quickly.

The Clarity Elixir: Pristine Star Lily can now be looted by multiple players at the same time.

These Colors Don't Run: Greatly increased the spawn rates for Bladespire Ogres and made them share tap credit.

Vengeance for the Fallen: Bleeding Hollow orcs respawn much more quickly now.

Creatures

Durotan at Beastwatch in Gorgrond is now significantly tougher.

Gorum can now be tapped by multiple characters. All players who contributed to defeating Gorum will now become eligible for loot.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Challenge Mode

Characters can switch specializations once more after the Challenge Mode has started.

November 12

Classes

Death Knight

Talents

Necrotic Plague now deals 20% more damage.

Druid

Balance

Lunar Peak should no longer incorrectly display as having 2 charges (it was always only 1 charge). Additionally, the tooltip will be updated in a future patch to clarify the damage increase only applies to Moonfire's initial damage.

Binding Shot should now correctly stun targets affected by silence when they move more than 5 yards from the arrow. Additionally, targets should no longer incorrectly break out of stealth on entering Binding Shot's area of effect.

Resolved an issue where Posthaste may sometimes not trigger correctly with Disengage.

Mage

Fire

Combustion is now learned at level 80 (up from level 77).

Monk

Brewmaster

Stance of the Sturdy Ox now increases armor by 75% (up from 50%), and reduces magic damage taken by 15% (up from 10%).

Priest

General

Power Word: Shield now absorbs 20% more damage.

Discipline

Holy Nova's healing has been reduced by 41%.

Penance's damage and healing has been increased by 20%.

Warlock

Destruction

Fire and Brimstone should now correctly hit all secondary targets within 10 yards, regardless of whether they're in combat with the Warlock.

Talents

Damage caused by Burning Rush while Soul Link is active should no longer incorrectly cause the Warlock to go into combat.

Stacks of Demonbolt debuff should no longer be incorrectly removed by Hand of Protection.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

The Postmaster received a talking to and should no longer be mailing large amounts of unimportant items to players.

Pet Battle

Grommloc, the delightfully dreadful baby murloc masquerading as Grommash Hellscream, legendary leader of the Warsong clan is now available. Players eligible to receive this pet will find it in their in-game mailbox. An Achievement for obtaining this battle pet will be added in a future patch.

Items

Darkmoon Top Hat can now only be used while the Darkmoon Faire is active.

November 5

Racials

Dwarven Stoneform ability should no longer cause the character to break out of stealth.

Classes

Death Knight

General

Outbreak modified by Glyph of Outbreak should no longer incorrectly consume Runic Power if the attack misses.

Hunter

General

Explosive Trap modified by Glyph of Explosive Trap should now correctly knock enemies away from the trap instead of away from the Hunter.

Freezing Trap should now trigger correctly when a stealthed character walks over it.

Survival

Serpent Sting should now be correctly applied to targets even if they move more than 40 yards away when struck by Arcane Shot.

Hunter Pets

Tenacity Pet Specialization: Blood of the Rhino now reduces the pet's physical damage taken by 15% instead of increasing armor by 20%.

Tenacity Pet Specialization: Great Stamina now increases the pet's health by 60% (up from 12%).

Carrion Bird: Bloody Screech can now be set to autocast.

Priest

Discipline

Divine Aegis should now correctly factor in the increase from Might of the Mountain racial passive.

Holy Nova's healing has been decreased by 15%.

Talents

Divine Star's healing or damage (depending on Specialization) has been increased by 15%.

Warlock

General

Doomguards should no longer run out of energy from casting Doom Bolts.

Warrior

Talents

Sudden Death is now 2.5 RPPM (real procs per minute increased by Haste) instead of a 10% chance to activate from autoattacks.

Quests

Just Around the Corner: Characters should now be able to interact with Sparksocket's Tools.

The Brothers Bronzebeard: Brann's Flying Machine has been made to be more sturdy and should no longer be destroyed too quickly.

The Fall of Neferset City: Dark Pharaoh Tekahn should now spawn in correctly, allowing players to complete the quest.

The Strength of Tortolla: The quest can now be completed by characters with the PvP flag enabled.

Truce?: Characters should now be able to interact with Dull Carving Knife.

World Environment

Fixed an issue where Zidormi may send players to an incorrect phase in the Blasted Lands.

Timeless Isle

Resolved an issue where Mist-Covered Treasure Chest could sometimes be empty.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Terrace of Endless Spring

Protectors of the Endless: Protector Kaolan's Defiled Ground ability now deals less damage.

Heart of Fear

[Requires a realm restart.] Garalon: Destroying Garalon's Legs should now correctly damage Garalon and resolved a situation where players facing one of the legs may incorrectly receive an error message that they're not.

Dungeons

Siege of Niuzao Temple: Players should now be able to complete the achievement, Where's My Air Support?

Well of Eternity: Players should now be able to complete the achievement, That's Not Canon!

Challenge Mode

Once a Challenge Mode has started, characters can no longer change specializations, talents, or glyphs.

PvP

Resolved an issue where some eligible characters did not receive a Prideful Gladiator's Cloud Serpent.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Battlegrounds

Characters should now receive a popup notifying them with the amount of bonus Honor that was awarded at the end of a Random Battleground match.

Arenas

Priests entering an Arena match while in Spirit of Redemption form should no longer die during the Arena Preparation phase.

Professions

Mixology should be working correctly doubles the duration of flasks and elixirs once more.

Items

Adjusted a number of item enhancements from earlier expansions that were providing a larger than intended bonus.

Adjusted a number of potions from the Cataclysm expansion that were providing a larger than intended bonus.

Crocolisk Au Gratin should now correctly provide a buff to Haste and Stamina instead of Expertise and Stamina.

Fisherman's Feast now provides a more reasonable buff to Stamina.

Formula: Enchant Ring - Striking no longer has a use effect as the formula it teaches no longer exists.

Haunted Memento's Haunted effect is now a buff that can be removed by the character.

Bug Fixes

Resolved an issue where items transmogrified into The Horseman's Horrific Hood or The Horseman's Sinister Slicer could revert back to their original state.

Resolved an issue where boosting characters could cause them to forget spells that have been taught by items.

November 3

Darkmoon Faire

Reduced the levels of Moonfang, Moonfang Packmate, Moonfang Dreadhowl, Moonfang Snarler, and Darkmoon Rabbit back to pre-Warlords expansion levels. The creatures needs to respawn for the changes to take effect.

Heirloom items sold at the Darkmoon Faire should no longer have a gold cost associated with them.

Firebird's Challenge: Blazing Rings are no longer shared with other players.

It's Hammer Time: Characters that have been flagged as PvP enabled should now be able to complete the quest.

Classes

Hunter

Talents

Damage from A Murder of Crows can no longer be dodged.

Priest

Talents

Discipline: Spirit Shell's damage absorption shield should no longer be weaker than intended.

Rogue

Talents

Burst of Speed should now be usable even if the Rogue is under the effects of other movement speed buffs.

Shaman

Elemental

Earthquake's knock down effect is no longer affected by diminishing returns, but the knock down effect now only has a duration of 1.5 seconds.

Quests

Blood of the Betrayer: Rogues should now be able to remove Arcane Infused Armor from Nalice, and be able to complete the quest.

Dah, Nunt... Dah, Nunt...: Players should no longer remain stunned indefinitely and be able to complete the quest.

Get Kraken!: Increased the health for North Sea Kraken by 1000%.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Raids

Throne of Thunder

[Requires a realm restart.] Dark Winds debuff should no longer incorrectly persist on the character, preventing them from being able to use mounts.

Defeating Sartharion too quickly should no longer cause him to not drop a mount.

Black Temple

Illidan Stormrage: Fixed an issue where defeating Flames of Azzinoth too quickly in phase 2 may cause Illidan to not land.

Dungeons

Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom: Resolved an issue where players defeating multiple packs of creatures in the room too quickly could cause Jedoga Shadowseeker to remain not attackable.

Hellfire Ramparts: Players should now be able to loot the Reinforced Fel Iron Chest after defeating Vazruden the Herald.

Razorfen Downs: Resolved an issue where Amnennar the Coldbringer may sometimes fail to be summoned when Death Speaker Blackthorn is defeated.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Battlegrounds

Increased Honor gains for Arathi Basin, Deepwind Gorge, Eye of the Storm, and The Battle for Gilneas. Honor is now awarded for every 150 resources gathered (up from Honor being awarded for every 250 resources gathered).

Returning a flag in Battlegrounds should correctly play an appropriate sound once more.

Items

Made a number of adjustments where lower level food items were providing a larger than intended buff.

UI

Timeless Isle Tokens and legendary weapons looted during the fight with Kael'thas Sunstrider in Tempest Keep are no longer included in the guild news panel.

Bags set to "Ignore this bag" should now be saving the setting correctly when the character logs out or zones into a new area.

/console colorblindshader [0-8] has been re-enabled and replaced with /console colorblindsimulator [0-8].

Bug Fixes

Resolved a frame rate stuttering issue that was affecting some Mac OS clients.

Mobile Armory's guild chat should be working once more.

October 30

Hallow's End

Exquisite Costume Set: "The Lich King" now allows the user to ride on a mount while transformed.

Classes

Resolved an issue where durations for periodic effects were not always being extended for the full amount when refreshed by another ability.

Death Knight

Unholy

Necrosis’ damage has been increased by 67%.

Scourge Strike’s damage has been increased by 50%.

Unholy Might now increases Strength by 5% (down from 10%).

Talents

Defile should no longer be growing in radius and damage by more than the intended amount.

Druid

General

Druids are no longer able to switch specializations while in Flight Form.

Druid shapeshift forms should now override the transformation from Fire-Watcher's Oath.

Wrath’s damage has been increased by 25%.

Balance

Starfall’s damage has been increased by 75%.

Starfire’s damage has been increased by 25%.

Starsurge’s damage has been increased by 25%. Additionally, resolved an issue where Starsurge may sometimes provide an incorrect Lunar or Solar Empowerment.

Restoration

Nature's Swiftness should no longer incorrectly allow Cyclone to be cast while in any shapeshift form.

Talents

Nature's Vigil now heals nearby targets for 20% of the healing done (down from 30%), but can now trigger from Multistrikes.

Smite critical hits should no longer incorrectly cause the target to be healed for a greater than intended amount through Atonement while also receiving a larger than intended damage shield that's granted through Divine Aegis.

Shadow

Mastery: Mental Anguish now increases damage by 3.125% per point (up from 2.5%).

Glyphs

Glyph of Inner Fire and Glyph of Inner Sanctum should now be correctly removed as those glyphs no longner exist.

Rogue

Combat

Killing Spree should no longer cancel or end prematurely if one of their targets is immune to damage.

Shaman

General

Lava Burst's visuals should no longer be excessively large.

Elemental

Earthquake's visuals are no longer visible for friendly players.

Shamanism now increases Lightning Bolt's damage by 70% (up from 36%).

Enhancement

Fire Nova now has a maximum of 7 novas that can be triggered if more than 7 targets are affected by Flame Shock.

Maelstrom Weapon should no longer incorrectly persist after the Shaman has switched to a different specialization.

Talents

Echo of the Elements effect should now be correctly consumed during Ascendance.

Elemental Blast's damage has been increased by 20%.

Warlock

Demonology

Molten Core should no longer incorrectly trigger its effect based on the casting Warlock's health

Resolved an issue where Soul Fire's damage was reduced by a greater than intended amount.

Destruction

Resolved a situation where interactions between Immolate, Fire and Brimstone, and Cataclysm could cause Immolate to deal less damage than intended.

Talents

Cataclysm now has a slight visual which can be seen by the Warlock's allies when it's being cast.

Warrior

General

Heroic Leap should no longer allow the Warrior to ignore vertical terrain restrictions while in a Dungeon, Raid, or Battleground.

Whirlwind’s damage has been reduced by 30%.

Talents

Ravager’s damage has been reduced by 25%.

Slam’s damage has been reduced by 30%.

Quests

Breaking the Emperor's Shield: Nakk'rakas should no longer despawn, allowing players to complete the quest.

Creatures

Damp Shambler's Renewing Mists now heals for less.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Siege of Orgrimmar

Paragons of the Klaxxi: Resolved an issue where Kil'ruk the Wind-Reaver could not be looted.

Downfall Wing 4: Resolved an issue where Gnomish Gyrocopters may not be destroying Thresher Turrets for Alliance players.

Throne of Thunder

Jin'rokh the Breaker's Ionization effect should no longer deal an excessive amount of damage.

Icecrown Citadel

The Lich King's Harvest Soul ability should no longer deal an excessive amount of damage.

Trial of the Crusader

Anub'arak's Leeching Swarm should no longer be healing Anub'arak for an excessive amount.

Dungeons

Blackrock Caverns: Angered Earth should now spawn in when Rom'ogg Bonecrusher hits a player with Quake.

Razorfen Kraul: Groyat, the Blind Hunter's Drain Life ability should no longer damage or heal for an excessive amount.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Arenas

Tol'viron Arena should now correctly have Dampening.

Battlegrounds

Deepwind Gorge: Status of the mine cart should now be updating correctly.

Isle of Conquest: Huge Seaforium Bombs no longer have a level requirement to interact with them.

Items

Elixirs from the Cataclysm expansion should no longer be more powerful than their counterparts from Mists of Pandaria.

Boiled Silkworm Pupa now provides a buff to Critical Strike instead of Hit.

Claws of Agony and Claws of Torment's 2-piece set bonus now gives a more reasonable amount of Haste.

Manual Crowd Pummeler's on-use effect now grants a more reasonable increase to Haste.

Technique: Glyph of the Executor no longer has an effect as the Glyph it teaches no longer exists.

Zandalarian Hero Badge now provides a more reasonable amount of Armor.

UI

Settings for SET ffxGlow should no longer be resetting when exiting the game client.

October 28

Quests

Roll Club: Serpent's Spine should no longer cause players to float and allow them to complete the quest.

Enforcer Sorka's Convulsive and Lingering Shadows are no longer incorrectly removed when the targeted player dies.

Marak the Blooded's Blood Ritual still only targets a player within 45 yards but the damage cone now has a range of 100 yards.

Fixed an issue where Iron Maidens not on the Dreadnaught may instantly cast their spells and abilities at the end of the boat phase.

Fixed an issue where Marak the Blooded was incorrectly gaining Sanguine Strikes at 75 Iron Fury on Mythic difficulty.

Blackhand

Rubble Piles should no longer appear after the transition to stage two.

Fixed an issue where a player may not be correctly protected from Blackhand's Impaling Throw when multiple players were taking cover behind the same Rubble Pile.

February 12

Classes

Death Knight

Armor Sets

Tier-17 2-piece bonus for Unholy Death Knights in addition to its current effect also causes Dark Transformation to apply an additional 40% damage bonus to the ghoul, increasing total pet damage by roughly 20%.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Blackrock Foundry

The Blast Furnace

Reduced the health of Primal Elementalists on Mythic difficulty.

Primal Elementalists are now immune to knockback effects.

Fixed an issue in Phase 2 where Slag Pools may fail to heat up Heart of the Mountain.

Fixed an issue where if the encounter is reset at the beginning of Phase 2, then Phase 2 adds would incorrectly spawn in during Phase 1 on the next attempt.

Kromog

Kromog’s Stone Pillars now persist for 60 seconds or if they are hit by Rippling Smash, whichever comes first.

Kromog’s enrage timer is now at 9 minutes (up from 8 minutes) across all difficulties.

Beastlord Darmac

Dreadwing's Inferno Breath and Spirit of the Rylak's Superheated Shrapnel no longer deals damage to player pets or guardians.

Fixed an issue in Stage Two where Beastlord Darmac may sometimes be unaffected by Cruelfang's Savage Howl.

Operator Thogar

Train schedules after the 7.5 minute mark have been adjusted to be less difficult on Normal and Heroic difficulty.

Fixed an issue that could cause reinforcements from trains to appear to be standing still while still moving around.

Iron Maidens

Fixed an issue that could cause Enforcer Sorka to become stuck in the railing after using her Blade Dash ability.

Fixed an issue that could cause the Iron Maidens encounter to reset prematurely.

Fixed an issue where Iron Maidens were incorrectly only dropping Normal difficulty quest items for Sigil of the Black Hand on all difficulties.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Arathi Basin: Completion criteria for the Resilient Victory achievement should now be tracking correctly and be obtainable.

Eye of the Storm (Rated): Fixed an issue where defending a capture point at Mage Tower and Blood Elf Tower displays the wrong tower in the chat window.

Blaze should no longer be dealing increased damage to players with the Incendiary Shots debuff.

Stage Three's Overheated effect should no longer incorrectly trigger player abilities that activate from being attacked.

The following hotfix from yesterday, February 9 was reverted. Blackhand's Marked for Death is back to a 15 second recast during Stage Two. In Stage Two, Blackhand now casts Marked for Death every 16 seconds (up from 15 seconds).

Items

Darmac's Unstable Talisman, Furyheart Talisman, and Goren Soul Repository can now trigger its effect from heals as well.

Frostwolf Fishing Journal can no longer be sold to a vendor and no longer has a sell price.

February 9

World Event: Love is in the Air

Crushing the Crown: Fixed an issue where the Crown Chemical Company Wagon in Darkshore was not granting quest completion credit.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Blackrock Foundry

Gruul

Gronnling Laborer's Gronnling Smash ability now deals less damage.

Reduced the damage that Gruul’s Inferno Slice deals to 10-player raid groups on Normal and Heroic difficulties, but increased the rate at which damage scales with raid size. Larger raid groups should find the damage relatively unchanged; smaller groups will find that the ability now deals less damage.

Fixed a situation where Tricks of the Trade (Rogue) or Misdirection (Hunter) could cause the Deckhands to go into evade mode.

Blackhand

Beginning with the new raid timer, Blackhand will consistently drop universal set tokens at the same consistent rates as other bosses in Blackrock Foundry.

If the Siegemaker's Fixated target dies, it should now Fixate on the closest target.

Cast time for Iron Soldier's Explosive Rounds ability should now be scaling smoothly with raid size and should no longer have breakpoints where the damage ramps up more than intended at 16 and 26 players.

Change Reverted: In Stage Two, Blackhand now casts Marked for Death every 16 seconds (up from 15 seconds).

In Stage Three, Blackhand's Attach Slag Bombs ability now prefers players that are not affected by the Impaled debuff.

Battleground and Arenas

Druid's Starfall and Sunfall no longer targets players that are capturing a PvP point in Arathi Basin, Battle for Gilneas, and Eye of the Storm.

Bug Fixes

Alliance characters that complete the Primal Combatant achievement are no longer being told to go to Orgrimmar to receive a reward.

Fixed an issue where characters that log out on the Deeprun Tram may be unable to log back in.

February 6

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Blackrock Foundry

Blackhand

[Requires a realm restart.] Siegemaker's Black Iron Plating is now removed by Slag Bomb. Slag Bomb's damage dealt to Siegemakers now scales up based on the number of players in the Raid. To adjust for this change, damage dealt to Siegemakers has been reduced for Impaling Throw by 20% and Slag Bomb by 30% (but damage still scales up based on Raid size).

Blackhand's Impaled effect should no longer be incorrectly removed by abilities that remove damage-over-time effects.

Shaman's Searing Totem and Liquid Magma should now correctly target Iron Soldiers while on the balcony.

Fixed an issue where Exploding Iron Star may sometimes not trigger or deal damage during the transition to Stage Two.

Upper Blackrock Spire

Sentry Cannons now self-destruct on Heroic difficulty when a player with Engineering uses Safety Protocols.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Eye of the Storm: Fixed an issue where Horde players were unable to capture the flag at Mage Tower.

February 5

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Blackrock Foundry

Resolved an issue where Slagshop Brutes may sometimes not reset correctly if the raid wipes while they're casting Death Howl.

Blackhand's Impaling Throw damage dealt to Siegemakers should now properly scale up based on the number of players in the Raid.

Visuals for Marked for Death and Slag Eruptions should now be easier to see.

Players should now only receive a single debuff that refreshes when running through Blazes created by Siegemaker Mortar attacks.

Resolved an issue that could cause some Hunters or Warlocks to suffer fatal falling damage during the transition to Stage Three: Iron Crucible.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Faction flags should no longer appear for players in an Arena or Arena Skirmish match.

February 4

Classes

Druid

General

Mangle's damage has increased by 27%.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Blackrock Foundry

Gruul

Gruul now uses Petrifying Slam against 5 targets in a 10-player raid, scaling up to 10 targets in a 30-player raid (used to be 8 targets for all raid sizes).

Hans'gar & Franzok

Mages should no longer be able to incorrectly Blink through the ramp at the end of the room.

Beastlord Darmac

Fixed an issue that could cause Beastlord Darmac despawn immediately once defeated.

Operator Thogar

Operator Thogar should now be immune to damage during the start of the encounter until he jumps down onto the tracks.

Iron Maidens

Admiral Gar'an should no longer interrupt herself while using Deploy Turret.

Blackhand

Players should no longer be able to avoid Incendiary Shot on the balconies in Stage Two.

February 3

World Event: Love is in the Air

Lovely Card buffs no longer work while in a Challenge Mode dungeon, Normal, Heroic, or Mythic difficulty Draenor raid.

Creatures and NPCs

World Boss: Rukhmar

Energized Phoenixes should now only fixate on players that are in combat.

Resolved an issue where Rukhmar could get stuck and not reset correctly.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Blackrock Foundry

The Blast Furnace: Resolved an issue where if the encounter was reset during Phase 2 - The Heart Exposed, adds will spawn immediately the next time Phase 2 becomes active.

The Blast Furnace: Firecaller's Lava Burst and Volatile Fire abilities should now correctly always hit a player even if they attempt to kite them.

February 2

World Event: Love is in the Air

Players should now be able to complete the achievements Beacon of Love and They Really Love Me!

Manufactured Love Prism now has a 60-second cooldown (up from 30 seconds).

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Garrison Campaign

[Requires a realm restart] Socrethar's Demise: Resolved an issue that could cause the event to not reset correctly.

Classes

Mage

Armor Sets

PvP 4-piece set bonus for Arcane Mages, Arcane Focus should now properly have its duration extended with Arcane Power by the Overpowered talent.

Paladin

Armor Sets

Tier-15 2-piece set bonus for Protection Paladins should no longer work for level-100 characters.

Quests

Gorgrond

Ambushing the Enemy: Resolved an issue where characters that have completed The Giant Cauldron first may be unable to see Thisalee Crow.

Legacy

Zul'Drak

Disclosure: Malmortis should no longer be getting stuck during a scripted event if the player was flagged for PvP combat and allow players to receive completion credit for the quest.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Highmaul

Resolved an issue where a number of abilities from Kargath Bladefist, The Butcher, and Brackenspore were not triggering player abilities that should trigger from taking damage.

Twin Ogron: Resolved a situation where having the raid wipe just as the Twin Ogron are defeated with a raid leader that did not perform hostile action towards the bosses during the encounter could cause the raid to not be eligible for loot.

Roll or Flying Serpent Kick (Windwalker) should now work correctly for Monks while they're carrying a flag.

Eye of the Storm

Flag captures in both normal and Rated Eye of the Storm match should now be correctly registering on the scoreboard and grant credit towards achievements that have to do with capturing a flag.

Flipping control of Draenei Ruins in a Rated Eye of the Storm match should now immediately teleport players waiting to be resurrected to the next available graveyard.

Resolved an issue in a Rated Eye of the Storm match that could cause a capture point to not flip correctly and be unable to be captured.

Items

Inscription-crafted Warlords trinkets should no longer be able to be upgraded using crystals meant for upgrading Inscription-crafted weapons as this could cause the trinket to end up in a broken state.

Goren Disguise can no longer be used while in a Challenge Mode Dungeon.

January 27

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Tier 3 Garrisons: Dungeoneer's Training Dummy for healing and damage have swapped places so melee classes are less likely to trigger the tanking dummy by accident.

Garrison Campaign Quests

Assault on Skettis: Creatures and NPCs associated with Assault on Skettis now respawn more frequently and increased the amount of morale awarded for defeating them.

Gladiator's Sanctum Level 3: Players can no longer be votekicked from the Coliseum scenario.

Primal Fury: Players that have completed the quest before the hotfix from January 21 should now correctly receive Thisalee Crow (Alliance) or Choluna (Horde) as a Follower.

Classes

Druid

General

Ferocious Bite no longer loses damage when cast with a low amount of Energy while Berserk is active. Berserk will still discount Cat Form abilities' Energy cost, but will include the bonus damage as if it weren't cast with Berserk active.

Feral

Leader of the Pack should now correctly trigger its heal for Druids that have learned the talent, Claws of Shirvallah.

Talents

Incarnation: Tree of Life's bonuses should no longer be incorrectly retained without having the talent learned.

Nature's Vigil should no longer be dealing excessive damage to high level targets by healing low level NPCs.

Rogue

Glyphs

Glyph of Recovery should no longer make Recuperate heal for less than the intended amount.

Quests

All quests should now still award experience even if the character is dead at the time of completion.

Frostfire Ridge

The Shadow Gate: Players who became stuck after completing "The Shadow Gate" will need to re-enter the cave within the Bloodmaul Stronghold in Frostfire Ridge if they were unable to see Orlana Strongbrow to continue their quest series.

Gorgrond

Ambushing the Enemy: Resolved an issue where players were unable to complete this quest if The Giant Cauldron has been completed first.

Talador

At Your Command: Horde characters who have faction changed to Alliance should now be able to complete the quest "At Your Command" if they have completed the Horde version previously.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Auchindoun

Grom'tash the Destructor and Gul'kosh should no longer force all party members into combat, including ones that aren't actively in combat with them.

Shadowmoon Burial Grounds

Ner'zhul: Resolved an issue where players may be unable to use the portal to re-enter the encounter area.

Icecrown Citadel

The Lich King: Resolved an issue where Val'kyr Shadowguards can prevent players from being able to complete the encounter if they pick the player up after Fury of Frostmourne has been cast.

PvP

Ashran

There's now a 30 minute delay between battles after Grand Marshal Tremblade or High Warlord Volrath has been defeated.

Stormshield Gladiators and Warspear Gladiators now respawn 3 minutes after Grand Marshal Tremblade or High Warlord Volrath has been defeated.

Items

Goren Disguise no longer works in Arenas or Rated Battlegrounds.

Scabbard of Kyanos' on use effect, the Sword Technique buff is now reduced by 40% while players have Battle Fatigue.

Swapblaster no longer works while in a Battleground.

January 21

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Garrison Campaign Quests

A Stolen Heart: Azuka Bladefury should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode for Horde characters.

Primal Fury: Completing the quest should now correctly award Thisalee Crow (Alliance) or Choluna (Horde) as a Follower. A fix to award the followers for players that have already completed the quest will be made at a later date.

Socrethar's Demise: Resolved an issue that could cause the banner used to challenge Socrethar to not work correctly.

Glyph of Illumination is obsolete and should no longer be incorrectly retained by some Paladins.

Shaman

Restoration

Healing received through Spirit Link Totem redistributing player health to match each other should no longer be incorrectly affected by Dampening.

Warlock

Talents

Demonbolt (Demonology) now deals 25% less damage against other players in PvP combat.

Warrior

Arms

Mastery: Weapons Master’s effects were overtuned and have been reduced in effectiveness by 18%. The mastery remains significantly stronger than before and is still 29% more powerful than prior to the hotfix from January 12.

Armor Sets

Tier-16 2-piece bonus for Protection Warriors now heals for 3% less for each character level above level 90.

Quests

Frostfire Ridge

In the Shadow of Giants: Players should now correctly receive completion credit while interacting with Flamrog or Kindler.

Legacy

Trapping the Leader (Kun-Lai Summit): Killing Shan Kien quickly should no longer prevent him from respawning.

Creatures and NPCs

Shadowmoon Valley

Gorum should now correctly leash back to their spawn point.

Gorgrond

Laughing Skull guards at Beastwatch in Gorgrond should no longer attack Horde players.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Highmaul

Tectus: Resolved an issue where several mobs during the encounter did not reset the cooldown on Marked for Death (Rogue Talent) when killed.

Seal of Truth now deals 80% less damage for Protection Paladins and should primarily use Seal of Insight for defensive value.

Seraphim now grants 750 of each stat for Protection Paladins (down from 1000).

Warlock

Glyphs

Resolved an issue where glyphed abilities that remove damage over time effects from a crowd controlled target would incorrectly cause damage over time effects stored under Soul Swap to be removed from Warlocks.

Quests

Garrison Campaign quests are now listed under "Garrison Campaign" category in the Quest Log.

January 13

Class

Death Knight

Unholy

Festering Strike's damage has been increased by 28%.

Scourge Strike's damage has been increased by 28%.

Druid

Balance

Starfall's effect is now only suppressed when shapeshifting into a non-Moonkin form. Shifting back into the appropriate form will allow the effect to resume.

Monk

Armor Sets

Tier-17 4-piece set bonus for Brewmaster Monks now only triggers when you Purify Moderate or Heavy Stagger.

PvP 2-piece set bonus for Brewmaster and Windwalker Monks now only triggers while in PvP combat.

PvP 4-piece set bonus for Brewmaster Monks now confers 75% of the Guard effect to the 2 nearest allies.

Rogue

Combat

Blade Flurry is now able to trigger from Multistrikes.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Highmaul

Kargath Bladefist: Resolved an issue where players can incorrectly get locked to the instance after wiping to Kargath on Mythic difficulty.

Imperator Mar'gok: Gorian Warmage's Fixate ability should now only cause the targeted player to drop out of stealth instead of incorrectly causing all steathed players in the raid to drop out of stealth.

[Requires a realm restart] Barn: Trapping now awards a caged beast for each nearby party member with an appropriate level barn. More information regarding the change can be found on the forums.

Creatures

Shadowmoon Valley

Bahameye should no longer be incorrectly phased in some instances.

Gorgrond

Poundfist is now immune to crowd-control effects.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Highmaul

Imperator Mar'gok: Councilor Gorluk's Phantasmal Weapons should no longer cause all players in the zone to go into combat.

PvP

Ashran

Grand Marshal Tremblade and High Warlord Volrath should no longer be able to be pulled through the side gates.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Arathi Basin: Using Ice Floes or Aspect of the Fox should no longer incorrectly allow players to capture a point while moving.

Silvershard Mines: The northern track switch should now work correctly.

January 8

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Garrison Buildings

Barn

[Requires a realm restart] Increased the spawn rate and number of spawn points for Direfang Alpha, Ironhide Bull, and Wetland Trampler. This hotfix will be deployed in combination with the hotfix from January 7 to increase spawn rates slightly.

Class

Abilities that heal based on a percentage of total/maximum health should now be able to be correctly modified by healing debuff modifiers.

Hunter

General

[Currently in testing] Freezing Trap now has a trigger radius of 3 yards (down from 5 yards).

Paladin

Armor Sets

Hotfix to change the PvP 4-piece set bonus for Retribution Paladins announced from January 5 has been deployed.

Priest

Glyphs

Glyph of Reflective Shield should now correctly only reflect damage on self-cast Power Word: Shields and not when it's cast on other players.

Quests

Gorgrond

Reagents from Rakthoth: This quest can now be completed if another quest, Plant Pruning has already been completed.

Seeking the Scout: This quest can now be completed if another quest, Plant Pruning has already been completed.

[Requires a realm restart] The Giant Cauldron: Players should now be able to reacquire or complete the quest if they disconnect or log out during the flight after speaking with Choluna.

Raids and Dungeons

Highmaul

Kargath Bladefist: Defeating Iron Grunts before the start of the encounter no longer grants favor with Roar of the Crowd on Mythic difficulty.

The Butcher: Pale Vitriol should now correctly be reapplied to Hunters under the effects of Deterrence on Mythic difficulty.

PvP

Ashran

Bonus Objectives in Ashran now restart every 30-40 minutes after completion (up from 20-30 minutes).

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Capturing a point in Arathi Basin, The Battle for Gilneas City, and the Rated Battlegrounds version for Eye of the Storm should now take 7 seconds (down from 8 seconds). This change restores time to capture a point back to what it was for these Battlegrounds in pre-6.0.2.

Items

All Follower contracts are now bind-on-pickup.

January 7

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Garrison Buildings

Barn

Deadly Iron Trap now only traps an elite creature (Direfang Alpha, Ironhide Bull, and Wetland Trampler) that the player or party has tap credit on.

Conversion for Frost Death Knights should now correctly count as 15 Runic Power spent toward other abilities that trigger based on Runic Power spent.

Druid

Restoration

Wild Growth's healing should now smoothly increase with Haste instead of having breakpoints. Total healing for the ability will vary slightly depending how much Haste the Druid had previously; with healing increasing slightly for most Druids.

Armor Sets

PvP 2-piece set bonus for Restoration Druids should no longer incorrectly consume Nature's Swiftness when the root effect is triggered.

Hunter

Talents

Resolved a situation that could cause Binding Shot to not stun the target correctly.

Monk

General

Way of the Monk now increases the Monk's autoattack damage with one-handed weapons by 25% (down from 40%), and increases the attack speed of two-handed weapons by 55% (up from 40%).

Priest

Talents

Clarity of Will's (Discipline) damage absorption shield can now stack up to a maximum of 75% of the casting Priest's health (instead of up to 50% of the target's health).

Rogue

Subtlety

Honor Among Thieves now only triggers its effect in combat.

Sinister Calling's triggered Bleed effects should now be able to Crit or Multistrike if the source Bleed effect could Crit or Multistrike.

Shaman

General

Lightning Shield should no longer expire prematurely when Cyclone is cast on an Elemental Shaman.

Warrior

Fury

Wild Strike should now be correctly crediting the full amount of Rage that had been spent towards the talent, Anger Management.

PvP

Ashran

Players should now receive advanced notification when the Bonus Objective: Brute's Rise will become active.

Players now have 60 seconds to accept the prompt to enter Ashran (up from 20 seconds).

Bug Fixes

Resolved an issue that could cause Quest achievements for Draenor zones to not be awarded correctly to characters below level 100.

December 19

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Garrison Buildings

Gladiator's Sanctum: Resolved a situation that could cause players to be unable to receive new Nemesis quests.

Quests

Frostfire Ridge

The Cure: Frostwolf Gladiators can no longer be killed by Alliance players.

UI

Guild Bank Money Logs should now be able to correctly display records of transactions greater than 215,000 gold.

December 18

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Outposts

[Requires a realm restart.] Completing a quest for a newly swapped Outpost building should no longer cause it to incorrectly revert back to a pre-swapped state.

Classes

Hunter

Talents

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Chimera should now work correctly with the Glyph of Mirrored Blades.

Priest

Talents

Clarity of Will's (Discipline) protective ward on a critical effect should now be correctly reduced by Battle Fatigue in PvP combat.

Glyphs

Glyph of the Inquisitor should now correctly be dealing self-damage against the Priest (with a chance to break crowd control effects) in PvP combat against enemy players with glyphed crowd control abilities that removes damage over time effects on the target.

Rogue

Assassination

Envenom should no longer incorrectly consume all of the Rogue's combo points if the ability misses or was dodged.

Subtlety

Hemorrhage's periodic effect should now be able to critically strike.

Quests

Talador

Socrethar's Demise: Resolved an issue that could cause Socrethar to become unattackable.

Legacy

Report to the King: Resolved an issue where completing this quest was incorrectly causing Hero's Call: Redridge Mountains! and My Son, the Prince to become unavailable

Warning the Warchief: Resolved an issue where completing this quest was incorrectly causing Machines of War and Enemies Below to become unavailable.

Creatures and NPCs

Frostfire Ridge

Iron Cannoneers no longer drop Iron Horde Scraps.

Gorgrond

Iron Banshee should now correctly award credit towards completing Assault on the Pit.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Dungeons

The Everbloom

Xeri'tac: Resolved an issue that could cause Venom-Crazed Pale One to not spawn in correctly.

PvP

Ashran

Fangraal and Kronus now costs 3000 Artifact Fragments to summon (up from 1000).

Items

Primal Spirits should now be dropping more frequently while harvesting mineral and herb nodes outside of the Garrison, from Skinning, and in a satchel obtained by completing the daily Fishing quest from the Garrison Fishing Shack.

Potions purchased from the Brawler's Guild are now bind on pickup.

Guide: Sharpshooting should now correctly have a chance to drop for Hunters from rare Draenor NPCs and creatures.

Kowalski's Music Box should now correctly apply its soothing effect to targets that are not in combat.

World Shrinker's effect is now removed when mounting up.

UI

Premade Groups should no longer display a Scenarios category for characters that are above level 90.

December 17

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Garrison Buildings

Frostwall Mines: Mine Guards should now scale with the player's character level.

Frostwall Mines Level 3: Mine Guards now have significantly more health and damage.

Classes

Mage

Talents

Prismatic Crystal used in PvP combat, now transfers only 75% of total damage on Critical Hits, and only 50% of total damage on Multistrikes. There's no change to the ability in PvE combat.

Warlock

Destruction

Havoc now has a base cooldown of 20 seconds (down from 25 seconds).

Creatures and NPCs

Zidormi in Dustwallow Marsh should now correctly send players back in time to visit old Theramore.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Satchel of Savage Mysteries now has a guaranteed chance to award a piece of Heroic Dungeon loot (item level 630 rare) appropriate for the character's loot specialization.

Developer Commentary: We’re aware of excessive queue times for Heroic Dungeons. To help players have a better experience in Dungeon Finder, we’re expanding the rewards for Satchel of Savage Mysteries to award Heroic Dungeon loot in addition to the guaranteed Augment Rune, and a chance to contain a mount, Follower enhancement token, Battle Pet, or Battle-Stone. The satchel will remain Bind on Account and we'll continue to monitor Dungeon Finder queues and iterate as needed to ensure a great experience for everyone.

Raids

Highmaul

The Butcher now has a chance to drop a Green Winter Hat.

Brackenspore: Elements of the fight, such as hostile fungus and beneficial mushrooms should now be visible from further away during the encounter on Mythic difficulty.

Twin Ogron: Resolved a situation where pulling Twin Ogron and having them despawn could cause the Imperator Mar'gok encounter to not work correctly on Mythic difficulty.

December 16

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Garrison Buildings

A hotfix in testing from December 11 for the Inn has been implemented. The achievement, Stay Awhile and Listen now only requires the character to complete 10 of the 20 Inn quests (down from all 20).

Creatures and NPCs

Shadowmoon Valley

Yggdrel now deals less damage with the Entangling Vine ability.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Messages for obtaining an Augment Rune are no longer broadcasting to the party or raid group.

Raids

Highmaul

Tectus' health has been reduced by about 15% when the raid is scaled to 10 players on Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic difficulties. As the raid scales up to a maximum of 30 players, Tectus' health for 30 players remains roughly unchanged from before this hotfix.

Professions

Enchanting

Mark of Blackrock can no longer trigger its effect for the first 40 seconds after equipping the weapon.

UI

Resolved an issue where having a player join the Dungeon Finder or Raid Finder group just as another player was leaving could cause the button to queue up for additional players to remain greyed out for the rest of the group.

Resolved an issue where the Darkmoon Faire was not showing up in the in-game calendar past December 2014.

December 15

Class Tuning Changes

Hunter

Beast Mastery

Improved Focus Fire now grants a 5% increase (up from 2%) to attack power for every stack of Frenzy that had been consumed.

Survival

Serpent Sting's damage has increased by 60%.

Monk

General

Stance of the Fierce Tiger now increases all damage dealt by 5% (down from 10%).

Rogue

Assassination

Venomous Wounds' damage has increased by 20%.

Combat

Blade Flurry now also strikes up to 4 additional nearby opponents for 35% of normal damage (up from 30%).

Subtlety

Backstab's damage has increased by 20%.

Hemorrhage's damage has increased by 30%.

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Map Icon for the Garrison should now appear correctly for characters that had undergone a faction change.

Alliance Tier 3 Garrison: Dungeoneer's Training Dummy for healing and damage have swapped places so melee classes are less likely to trigger the tanking dummy by accident.

Garrison Buildings

Barn: Captured beasts can now stack to 20 (up from not being stackable).

Dwarven Bunker/War Mill: Armor transmogrification items obtained from the Dwarven Bunker/War Mill are now truly account-bound and can be sent to other characters on the same Battle.net account.

Gladiator's Sanctum: Corrected an issue that allowed a losing player to claim loot from victor's chest when multiple players died near-simultaneously.

Stables: Corrected an issue where players could complete The Stable Master achievement without owning a Level 3 Stable.

Classes

Druid

Balance

Sunfall (Starfall modified by Glyph of the Solstice) should now also be dealing 33% less damage in PvP combat.

Sunfall should no longer incorrectly have a chance to trigger Nature's Vigil.

Hunter

Talents

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Chimera should now interact correctly with Glyph of Deterrence.

Mage

Talents

Greater Invisibility should now correctly be counting as dispelling two damage over time effects instead of canceling them.

Armor Sets

PvP 2-piece set bonus for Mages should now be correctly consuming stacks of the buff while casting Frostfire Bolt.

Paladin

Talents

Hand of Purity should no longer incorrectly affect damage over time abilities that are immune from this damage reduction effect.

Selfless Healer should now be correctly dispelled instead of having only 1 stack dispelled at a time.

Armor Sets

PvP 2-piece set bonus for Retribution Paladins, Righteous Determination should now be dispellable.

Quests

Frostfire Ridge

Assault on Magnarok: Increased the spawn rates for creatures and NPCs for the quest.

Flames of the Earth: Players are now able to free Magma Elementals without tap credit and completion credit for the quest is now shared amongst all characters in the party.

Nagrand

Removing the Reinforcements: Resolved an issue where the quest could not be completed if the character had already completed And Justice for Thrall.

THAELIN!: Resolved an issue where players may not be able to complete the quest if they had already completed And Justice for Thrall.

World Environment

Resolved an issue that could cause The August Celestials daily quests to not match up in a cross-realm zone.

Creatures and NPCs

A large number of rare creatures and NPCs on Draenor can now be tapped by players on both factions.

Gorgrond

Poundfist now has 40% more health and increased the upper limit on the number of players his health can scale to.

Spires of Arak

Befuddled Relic-Seeker, Highmaul Relic-Seeker, and Highmaul Skullcrusher should no longer drop dead after being pickpocketed.

Kargath Bladefist: Players should no longer be getting trapped in the tiger pit after defeating Kargath Bladefist.

Brackenspore: Creeping Moss' healing dealt to fungal spawn will now show up in the Combat Log.

Brackenspore: Burning Infusion now increases damage and healing dealt by 13% per stack (up from 10% per stack) and decays more slowly at a rate of 1 stack every 4 seconds (up from 1 stack every 2 seconds).

Ko'ragh: DPS caster trinkets should now correctly have a chance to trigger its effects on attacks that have been completely absorbed by Ko'ragh's Nullification Barrier.

Imperator Mar'gok's Mark of Chaos abilities should now be correctly applied to all characters regardless of range.

PvP

Ashran

PvP vendors in Stormshield and Warspear now have Pre-Mixed Pot of Noodles for sale to Pandaren characters.

Conquest Primal Gladiator trinkets have had their values adjusted proportionally to the Honor Primal Combatant trinkets.

Players are now removed from a Dungeon Finder or Raid Finder group upon accepting the queue to enter Ashran.

Addressed an additional issue that could cause faction Captains to stop spawning.

Events in Ashran should now be occurring more frequently.

A Few Artifact Fragments should no longer be awarding more reputation than intended.

Items

Everbloom Seed Pouch no longer affects other players.

Tome of the Clear Mind now stacks to 200 (up from 20).

December 11

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Garrison Buildings

Inn: Inn quests can now be completed on the spot without returning back to the Garrison.

Inn: The achievement, Stay Awhile and Listen now only requires the character to complete 10 of the 20 Inn quests (down from all 20).

Outposts

Note: The following changes to Outposts will take effect with next week's scheduled maintenance.

Reduced the cost for changing Garrison Outpost buildings in Nagrand to 500 gold.

Reduced the cost for changing Garrison Outpost buildings in Gorgrond, Talador, and Spires of Arak to 5,000 gold.

Changing Garrison Outpost buildings should now grant access to the building-specific questline for that zone, including building-specific follower(s).

PvP 2-piece set bonus for Enhancement Shaman now reduces the duration of all incoming crowd control effects by 25% (down from 50%).

Warlock

Affliction

Nightfall should no longer fail to trigger if the most recent target of Corruption dies.

Destruction

Chaos Bolt now deals 33% more damage in PvP combat.

Warrior

Protection

Shield Slam modified by Glyph of Shield Slam now only dispels 1 magical effect while the Warrior is in Defensive Stance.

Armor Sets

PvP 4-piece set bonus now generates 3 Rage for every 1% health lost (up from 1 Rage per 1%).

Quests

Frostfire Ridge

A Song of Frost and Fire: Players can no longer accept this quest if The Home of the Frostwolves is already in their quest log.

Winds of Change: Olin Umberhide should now return if he despawns for any reason.

Creatures and NPCs

Shadowmoon Valley

Shadowspeaker Niir should now always be attackable.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Raids

Highmaul

Brackenspore: Elements of the encounter should now still be visible from further away.

Twin Ogron: Pol's Arcane Ogron forms should now correctly use Arcane Charge based on the direction they're facing.

Imperator Mar'gok: Gorian Reavers now use their abilities more consistently, using Crush Armor every 6 seconds (instead of 5-8 seconds), and Kick to the Face every 20 seconds (instead of 15-30 seconds).

Imperator Mar'gok: Gorian Reavers now deal 15% less damage on all difficulty modes.

Dungeons

Grimrail Depot

Core of Iron should now correctly only be available on Heroic difficulty.

Railmaster Rocketspark: Characters should no longer be taken out of stealth effects at the start of the encounter.

Upper Blackrock Spire

Ragewing the Untamed: Blackhand Doomcutter should no longer be incorrectly dropping for characters that use Strength in Personal loot mode.

PvP

Ashran

Fangraal and Kronus no longer scales their health based the number of players they're fighting. Each faction guardian's health now scales based on the number of enemy players active at the time when they're summoned.

Professions

Alchemy

Based on player feedback, a number of adjustments have been made to Alchemy recipes. Combat potion recipes no longer requires Crescent Oil and meat/fish, and will require herbs instead. Flask recipes now use more herbs, increasing the number of herbs needed from one type of herb to two.

Mark of Blackrock now triggers its effect more frequently, and can occur when the character is below 60% health (up from being below 50% health), and can also trigger from blocking an attack or absorbing damage.

Mark of the Shattered Hand now triggers its bleed effect less frequently.

Jewelcrafting

Based on player feedback, a number of adjustments have been made to Jewelcrafting recipes. Tier 1 gem recipes now requires more ore and less herbs. Tier 2 gem recipes will no longer requires herbs and instead require a tier 1 gem.

Resolved an issue where Druids that performed a Character Boost would be unable to learn the Incarnation talent until they have completed Tanaan Jungle.

December 10

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Resolved a situation that could cause ore and mining carts in a player's Garrison to despawn.

Resolved an issue where players may sometimes not correctly accrue rested experience when entering their Garrisons.

Garrison Invasions

Players defeating the final boss that pushes their invasion score to over 1000 should now correctly be able to receive credit for obtaining a gold rating.

Classes

Druid

Balance

Shooting Stars should no longer fail to trigger if the most recent target of Moonfire or Sunfire dies.

Hunter

General

Resolved a number of additional situations that could cause Kill Shot (Beast Mastery, Marksmanship) to not correctly reset its cooldown.

Monk

General

Transcendence: Transfer should now continue to correctly reference new transfer locations after multiple uses.

Priest

Talents

Insanity's (Shadow) snare should now be correctly affected by abilities that remove or reduces the duration of snare effects.

Rogue

Subtlety

Honor Among Thieves should no longer cause Rogues with the Anticipation talent to stand up after receiving a Critical heal.

Creatures and NPCs

Citizens of Dalaran! Raise your eyes to the skies and observe! Rhonin, Leader of the Kirin Tor, should now be reciting their spoken lines to characters within a much smaller radius in the streets of the city of Dalaran. Note that his text... his text are still worth reading and continue to still be visible to those within the city.

Rare creatures and NPCs are now immune to the Enslave Demon and Control Undead effect.

The Butcher's Heavy Handed attack should now be correctly counted as an attack for abilities that require an attack to trigger its effects.

The Butcher should no longer become unresponsive if a Rogue in stealth gets too close.

Brackenspore: Unit frames for Living Mushrooms and Rejuvenating Mushrooms should now display properly.

Imperator Mar'gok: Arcane Aberrations that have been Banished should now continue to use Collapsing Entity.

Imperator Mar'gok: Added a portal transporting players back to The Coliseum from Throne of the Imperator after Imperator Mar'gok has been defeated.

Dungeons

Shadowmoon Burial Grounds

The portal that appears after Ner'zhul has been defeated should now transport players back to the beginning of the Dungeon.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

The level 90 bracket has been merged into the level 91-99 bracket.

Priests should no longer be able to continue to hold onto the flag while in Spirit of Redemption form.

Rated Battleground flag carriers in a tanking specialization should no longer be taking more damage than flag carriers in a non-tanking specialization. Previously, flag carrying tanks took 50% more damage and that stacked with an additional 25% damage received while in RBGs (additional 75% damage received total). This change removes the 50% additional damage taken while carrying a flag in an RBG.

Professions

Enchanting

Resolved an issue that could cause Enchanter's Illusions to be reverted from an item.

Items

General goods vendors across Draenor now offer Crystal Vials and Enchanting Vellums for sale.

Consumable items that summons a fast mount can no longer be used while in a Challenge Mode.

Elixir of Deep Earth now increases armor by 67 (down from 268).

Primal Spirit is now only eligible for Greed rolls in Need Before Greed loot mode.

Restorative Waves now increases all healing done by 30% (up from 25%).

Talents

Elemental Blast's damage has increased by 10%.

Warrior

Fury

Bloodthirst's damage has increased by 20%, and has an additional 40% chance to be a critical strike (up from 30%).

Execute's (Fury) damage has increased by 10%.

Raging Blow's damage has increased by 33%.

Wild Strike's damage has increased by 32%.

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Ashran has been re-enabled as a potential daily strategic assault choice. This reverts a change from November 21.

Garrison Buildings

Work orders for the following Horde buildings (Mine, Herb Garden, Goblin Workshop, War Mill, and Trading Post) and Alliance buildings (Dwarven Bunker, Gnomish Gearworks, Trading Post) should now correctly contribute credit towards the achievements for Working Some Orders and Working More Orders.

Gem Boutique: Followers assigned to the building should now always offer a daily quest.

Gladiator's Sanctum: Work orders were awarding much more gold and items than intended. The amount of items and gold awarded has been reduced to be more comparable to other buildings.

Herb Garden: Visitors can no longer harvest the player's Frostweed.

Salvage Yard: Awards for salvage have been split into 3 tiers based on the level of the Garrison Mission (Levels 90-94, Levels 95-99, and Level 100). Additionally, the mission needs to be successful for a chance to receive salvage with Level 100 missions having a guaranteed chance on success.

Garrison Invasions

Shadow Council Invasion: Concubine of Sin no longer awards points when defeated.

Quests

Shadowmoon Valley

The Fate of Karabor: Yrel should now always assist the player with Krull. Additionally, Krull's Brutal Smash now has a reduced range of 6 yards.

Talador

Not In Your House: Fort Wrynn Laborers should now always flee after defeating Ripgut.

Send Them Running: Peons should now always flee after defeating Vicegnaw.

Creatures and NPCs

Grom'kar NPCs in the Frostfire Iron Siegeworks and Gorgrond Blackrock Foundry areas should now correctly have a chance to drop Iron Horde scraps for characters with a Dwarven Bunker / War Mill in their Garrisons.

Shadowmoon Valley

Shinri should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Raids

Highmaul

Tectus: Visual markers for Earthen Pillar, Fracture, Meteoric Earthspire, and Radiating Poison should now be easier to see.

Tectus: Meteoric Earthspire now deals less damage on Normal and Heroic difficulties.

Tectus' targeting circle for Crystalline Barrage should now still be visible for users with projected textures disabled.

Twin Ogron's Fierce Disposition, Savage Disposition, and Aggressive Disposition should now be showing up in combat logs.

Imperator Mar'gok's Arcane mines for Destructive Resonance should now be easier to see for users with projected textures disabled.

Imperator Mar'gok: Visuals for Destructive Resonance should now be visible from anywhere in the Throne of the Imperator area.

Imperator Mar'gok's Arcane Wrath ability should no longer incorrectly jump to a player that has been Branded during Phase 4 with the Power of Replication.

Dungeons

Auchindoun

Disabled the cutscene for Teron'gor that plays after defeating Azzakel on Challenge Mode.

Skyreach

Ranjit should no longer occasionally target the tank with Lens Flare and Windwall.

PvP

Ashran

Honor and reputation increases for turning in Artifact Fragments first noted on December 3, are now out of testing and have been implemented.

Disabled health regeneration for Kronus, Fangraal, Grand Marshal Tremblade, and High Warlord Volrath when they leash or drop out of combat.

Creatures outside of Ashran should no longer incorrectly have a chance to drop Artifact Fragments.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Rated Battlegrounds should no longer incorrectly be awarding PvP gear and items that require reputation with Vol'jin's Spear or Wrynn's Vanguard to equip.

Professions

Archeology

Pristine Ancestral Talisman and Pristine Cracked Ivory Idol should no longer be incorrectly awarded again if the character has already obtained the item.

Items

Follower Weapon and Armor enhancements can now stack up to 20.

Temporary buffs that increase Critical Strike should now correctly increase Parry through Riposte for tanking specializations.

Cracked Potion Vials should no longer drop for non-Alchemists.

Everburning Candle was buffed much more than intended. The amount of mana granted has been reduced to 10,456 (down from 20,916). Additional information on the reasoning for this change can be found in the forum thread: Everburning Candle Changes.

Gently Squeezed Toad is no longer usable while in a Challenge Mode Dungeon.

Players entering Ashran from a PvE realm should now be correctly flagged for PvP.

Characters should no longer be able to resurrect at the King's Road graveyard if their faction isn't in control of that point.

Resolved an issue where faction Captains may not be spawning correctly.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Resolved an issue where if a Flag Carrier was standing in the area where their team's flag would be when it is returned, they'd be unable to capture the flag until they leave and return to the area again.

Arathi Basin: Characters on the Alliance team in a Rated Battleground should now be able to be resurrected by their Spirit Healer at the Blacksmith graveyard if their team is in control of it.

Eye of the Storm: Characters in a Rated Battleground will now return to their team's starting position when releasing, regardless of what bases their team controls.

The Battle for Gilneas: Resolved issues where Spirit Healers may sometimes not spawn in correctly when a point has been captured.

Professions

First Aid

Antiseptic Bandage no longer requires Sea Scorpion Segments to craft.

Jewelcrafting

Critical Strike Taladite should no longer incorrectly require a Taladite Crystal to craft.

Items

Consuming a Draenor potion, elixir, or flask should no longer cause the character to break out of stealth.

Mantid Elixir now provides a more reasonable increase to armor.

Primal Combatant's Drape of Contemplation now provide a bonus to Multistrike instead of Critical Strike to differentiate it from the Drape of Meditation.

Primal Gladiator's Drape of Contemplation now provide a bonus to Multistrike instead of Critical Strike to differentiate it from the Drape of Meditation.

December 4

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Resolved an issue where players may become stuck or be disconnected while attempting to visit other Garrisons.

[Requires a realm restart.] Salvage Yard: Special transmogrification items obtained from crates of salvage are now Rare (blue) quality to help distinguish them. Additionally, these items are now able to be disenchanted.

Disturbed Podlings and Goren Protectors that spawns inside of the Garrison should now be lootable if they're killed by an NPC (like a Bodyguard). An additional hotfix is being worked on that will also apply this while encountering Disturbed Podlings and Goren Protectors outside of the Garrison as well.

Garrison Buildings

Barn: Iron Trap, Improved Iron Trap, and Deadly Iron Trap should no longer be incorrectly triggering when other players run over it.

Dwarven Bunker / War Mill Level 2: Added a 2 hour grace period for cosmetic gear purchases from this building, allowing characters to sell the item back for a full refund. Note that utilizing the item for transmogrification will remove this grace period.

A Centurion Without a Cause: Defeating Woodfist far away from High Centurion Tormmok should no longer cause him to remain hostile to the character and allow players to complete the quest.

Assault on the Pit: Increased the spawn rate of creatures and NPCs for this quest.

Bonus Objective: The Forgotten Caves: Gorg the Host really should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.

Strike While the Iron is Hot: Players joining a version of this quest that's already in-progress should now be able to receive completion credit.

Nagrand

My Precious!: Resolved an issue where players may sometimes not receive completion credit for the quest. Additionally, players that have adandoned the quest should now be able to see Bazwix to reobtain the quest.

Ring of Trials quests can no longer be completed while in a Siege Tank or Demolisher. Seriously, that's not even a fair fight.

Goldmane the Skinner: Taking the cage key without opening the cage to let Goldmane out no longer prevents Bolkar the Cruel from respawning.

Legendary Ring Quest Line

Upgrading the ring should now correctly remove the old ring from the player's inventory.

World Environment, Creatures, and NPCs

Rare creatures and NPCs are now immune to the Dominate Mind ability.

Frostfire Ridge

Time-Warped Tower can now be looted by Alliance characters.

Shadowmoon Valley

Darktide Rylakinator-3000's attacks now deal more damage.

Talador

NPCs in the Aruuna area should no longer cause Horde characters to become stuck in combat.

Burning Eye's Eye of the Legion ability now has a reduced range of 30 yards (down from 100).

Credit for completing the achievement I Saw Solis should now be correctly awarded.

Upper Blackrock Spire

Kyrak's Rejuvenating Serum now has a duration of 9 seconds (down from 12 seconds). On Heroic difficulty and Challenge Mode, the ability now heals for the 8% (down from 10%).

Ragewing the Untamed's Engulfing Fire ability can now hit players that are not in line-of-sight.

PvP

Conquest Points have been converted into Honor Points before the start of the season.

Conquest Quartermasters Marshal Gabriel (Alliance) and General Aevd (Horde) have reinstated to sell Conquest gear. This reverts the hotfix from November 17.

Cross-realm groups are now able to enter Ashran together.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Strand of the Ancients should now correctly award players with a Gold Strongbox for winning.

Professions

Level-up items created by some professions no longer use reagents that required a daily cooldown to create and are no longer soulbound. To compensate for this change, basic reagent requirements have been increased and vendor buyback price for those items have been reduced now that they're less rare.

Blingtron 5000 should now correctly resume offering their daily quest after defeating another Blingtron.

Inscription

Ink Traders should now accept Warbinder's Ink in exchange for other inks.

Items

Many epic trinkets in Draenor received a buff to ensure a proper progression path through the Raid tier. This change affects world-drop BoE epic trinkets, Inscription-crafted epic trinkets, and trinkets that drop from Highmaul and Blackrock Foundry. Further information on this change could be found in the forum thread titled: Trinket Hotfixes.

Note that Scabbard of Kyanos was unintentionally buffed much more than intended and its stats will be reverted to a more reasonable level.

Missing Class Glyphs

The following Glyphs were not available to be crafted through Inscription and have been added to vendors in Stormshield and Warspear. Alliance players can purchase them from Joao Calhandro, and Horde players can purchase them from Maru'sa. The glyphs are unique and bind on acquire.

Glyph of the Solstice (Druid)

Glyph of Flying Fists (Monk)

Glyph of Cleanse (Paladin)

Glyph of Purification (Priest)

Glyph of Purify Spirit (Shaman)

Glyph of Frostbrand Weapon (Shaman) will be automatically learned at level 75.

A number of items with no function are now listed as gray/junk quality item.

Alchemical Catalyst is now an Uncommon quality item.

Aviana's Feather now only works in outdoor Draenor areas, and other outdoor areas that allow flight.

Metamorphic Crystal has no function is now listed as gray/junk quality item.

N.U.K.U.L.A.R. Target Painter no longer works during a Brawler's Guild match.

Oralius' Whispering Crystal no longer provides a buff to Spirit.

Ultimate Gnomish Army Knife can no longer be used while in an Arena or Battleground.

Mine Levels 2-3: Mining Carts now contains more Primal Spirits and Archeology fragments. The amount of ore given by each mining node has been adjusted to a more appropriate level.

Classes

Death Knight

Talents

Breath of Sindragosa should now work correctly with the Plaguebearer talent, extending the duration of diseases when used.

Monk

Talents

Chi Explosion's visuals should now be more visible and the ability's sound effects should no longer be too quiet.

Paladin

Holy

Beacon of Light's sound effects should no longer be excessively loud.

Quests

Shadowmoon Valley

Assault on Socrethar's Rise: Sargerei Binders should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.

Talador

Dreadpiston: Dreadpiston should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.

Nagrand

Assault on the Gorian Proving Grounds: Increased the spawn rate of creatures and NPCs in the quest area.

Challenge of the Masters: Warlord Dharl of the Thrice-Bloodied Blade really should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.

Garrison

Items obtained from Garrison Mission above level 615 now have a chance to be Warforged, contain a socket, or tertiary stats.

Lumber Mill: Legacy of the Ancients has increased spawn rates of Medium Timber around the Botani Marsh area in Shadowmoon Valley.

Creatures and NPCs

Shadowmoon Valley

Increased the spawn rate of creatures and NPCs in the Mok'gol Watchpost area.

Talador

Brutag Grimblade should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.

Nagrand

Hallvalor Blademaster should no longer be chasing players for excessively long distances.

Katsuo should no longer be incorrectly using Wind Walk to target players that they're not in combat with.

Ashran

Fangraal and Kronus now have 25% less health.

Grand Marshal Tremblade and High Warlord Volrath now scales their health based on the number of players in the zone.

Alliance captains should now be retreating in the correct direction.

Resolved an issue where multiple captains dying at the same time could cause an incorrect number of captains to respawn.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Dungeons

After a lengthy discussion with the Postmaster regarding their mailing habits, the Postmaster should no longer be mailing back gray quality items and money that haven't been looted by characters.

Resolved an issue where completing a Warlords of Draenor Dungeon was incorrectly being crediting progress towards the achievement, Queuing Spree.

Grimrail Depot

Fire effects for Slag Blast and Slag Tanker should now be visible across all graphics settings.

Iron Docks

Grimrail Enforcers: Resolved a looting issue that could occur depending on the order that Ahri'ok Dugru, Makogg Emberblade, and Neesa Nox are defeated in.

Skulloc: Resolved a looting issue that could occur depending on the order that Skulloc, Koramar, and Zoggosh were defeated in.

The Everbloom

Mutagen can now stack up to 10 times (down from 20) and have a maximum duration of 1 minute.

Ancient Protectors: Shaper's Fortitude has been removed on Heroic difficulty.

Upper Blackrock Spire

Orebender Gor'ashan's visuals for his Electric Pulse should now correctly reflect the ability's area-of-effect.

Challenge Mode

Items contained within the Challenger's Strongbox now have a chance to be Warforged, contain a socket, or tertiary stats.

PvP

Ashran

Class book abilities should now be correctly removed when leaving Ashran.

Professions

Crafted gear and weapons received an item level boost. Tooltips for the items will still display the incorrect (older) item level.

Crafted Tier-2 weapons now have an item level of 645 (up from 640).

Crafted Tier-3 weapons now have an item level of 660 (up from 655).

Crafted Tier-3 gear now have an item level of 670 (up from 665).

Enchanting

Rare (blue) quality items now have a greatly increased chance to disenchant into Draenic Dust instead of a Small Luminous Shard. Additionally, characters with the Enchanting profession should receive more Draenic Dust while disenchanting an item.

Tiger Palm (Brewmaster, Windwalker) now extends up to 130% of its normal duration when refreshed, similar to periodic effects.

Brewmaster

Guard's damage absorption shield now absorbs 100% more damage.

Stance of the Sturdy Ox now defers 30% of damage taken to be divided over 10 seconds (up from 20%).

Glyphs

Glyph of Keg Smash should now correctly increase the range of Keg Smash.

Paladin

Protection

Mastery: Divine Bulwark now increases Shield of the Righteous' damage reduction by 0.5% per point, down from 0.75% per point.

Grand Crusader now also has a 30% chance to trigger its effect from Crusader Strike and Hammer of the Righteous.

Shield of the Righteous now reduces physical damage taken by 25% (up from 20%).

Shaman

General

Chain Lightning's damage has been increased by 20%.

Lava Burst's (Elemental, Restoration) damage has been increased by 35%.

Lava Burst now has a chance equal to the character's Critical Strike chance to trigger an additional Multistrike. This is separate from the standard two chances for Lava Burst to Multistrike; one Lava Burst could trigger up to three Multistrikes (two standard Multistrikes, plus one more from Critical Strike chance).

Enhancement

Lava Lash's damage has been increased by 20%.

Stormstrike's damage has been increased by 20%.

Warlock

Affliction

Agony's damage has been increased by 20%.

Unstable Affliction's damage has been increased by 20%.

Demonology

Shadow Bolt's damage has been increased by 25%.

Soul Fire's damage has been increased by 25%.

Touch of Chaos' damage has been increased by 25%.

Destruction

Chaos Bolt's damage has been increased by 8%.

Conflagrate's damage has been increased by 8%.

Immolate's damage has been increased by 8%.

Incinerate's damage has been increased by 8%.

Rain of Fire's damage has been reduced by 60% and no longer generates Burning Embers.

Shadowburn's damage has been increased by 8%.

Talents

Demonbolt's (Demonology) damage has been increased by 10%.

Soulburn: Haunt (Affliction) now extends up to 130% of its normal duration when refreshed, similar to periodic effects.

Warrior

Protection

Revenge's damage has been reduced by 20%.

Shield Slam's damage has been reduced by 20%.

November 24

World Environment

The time that corpses persist in the world has been restored back to their former durations.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Dungeons

Resolved an issue where players were unable to queue through Dungeon Finder while in Warspear or Stormshield.

Upper Blackrock Spire

During the Commander Tharbek encounter, Black Iron Guards no longer join in the fight when he is at 10% health.

Commander Tharbek should no longer be using Iron Axe, Imbued Iron Axe, and Iron Reaver within 4 seconds of each other.

Orebender Gor'ashan's Electric Pulse should now correctly hit players that are standing on a Rune Conduit.

Son of the Beast's Fiery Trail should no longer persist and continue to damaging pets after being defeated.

Items

Miner’s Coffee should no longer be incorrectly applying its speed buff outside of the Garrison's mine.

Swapblaster should no longer be incorrectly swapping locations with targets other than another party member.

November 21

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Characters are now guaranteed to have level 90-94 Garrison Missions available if they have Followers in the level 90-94 range and level 95-99 Garrison Missions available if they have Followers in the level 95-99 range.

Work Orders should now also work with materials and reagents that are in the character's bank and reagent bank.

Temporarily disabled Ashran as a daily quest choice while we continue to troubleshoot issues with some of the daily quests being offered.

Followers

Leeroy Jenkins: Resolved an issue where characters that were dead or in Spirit of Redemption form when completing the achievement Leeeeeeeeeeeeeroy...? may sometimes not receive Leeroy Jenkins as a follower.

Quests

Shadowmoon Valley

Assault on Darktide Roost: Increased the respawn rates of creatures and NPCs needed for the quest.

Gorgrond

Assault on the Pit: Blackrock Foundry Assaulted credit is no longer being awarded when using the Iron Troop Launcher.

Shredder vs. Saberon: Resolved an issue where characters that leave the quest area immediately after receiving credit may be unable to turn-in the quest.

Spires of Arak

Assault on Skettis: The debuff Infected Talons placed by various creatures in the area for this quest no longer stacks.

Tarnished Bronze: Spirit of Kairozdormu's Time Bomb ability should no longer be hitting players that aren't in combat with him in a different phase.

World Environment

Portals leading to the Dark Portal in Blasted Lands have been added next to Archmage Khadgar in Stormwind and Orgrimmar.

Removed an erroneous treasure marker displayed by using the Spires of Arak Treasure Map for a Reagent Pouch that did not actually exist.

Creatures and NPCs

Increased the spawn rates for creatures and NPCs across a number of questing areas for level 100 daily quests.

Reduced the spawn rate of creatures and NPCs laying siege in the areas around Shattrath City.

Gruuk has moved to a new location where they can be seen by both Horde and Alliance players.

High Warlord Volrath and Grand Marshal Tremblade now only award 50 Honor for defeating them (down from 500).

Nagrand Prowler 's Leap for the Kill ability now has a shorter stun duration and smaller damage radius.

Nok-Karosh's drop, Garn Nighthowl now only allows players in a party or Raid to roll greed.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Dungeons

Reverted the change to the default loot mode for random matchmade groups in Dungeon Finder back to Personal loot.

In Personal loot, each player in the group will now always receive an item from the final dungeon boss.

In Need Before Greed, the dungeon boss will now drop 3 items to be shared among the group as desired, up from 2 previously.

Full premade groups queuing in Dungeon Finder now defaults to Need Before Greed and they can change the loot mode if they want.

Call to Arms for in-demand roles have been reeanabled for Dungeon Finder. Completing the dungeon awards a Satchel of Savage Mysteries with a chance to contain new treasures and it will always contain an Augment Rune, a tradeable item that provides a consumable buff that is ordinarily only available through Raid Finder.

An award of 50 Garrison Resources has been added for completing the first Random Warlords of Draenor Heroic Dungeon of the day.

Orebender Gor'ashan: Mobs from other parts of the Dungeon should no longer be joining the fight during the encounter.

Challenge Mode

Aviana's Feather should no longer be usable while in a Challenge Mode dungeon.

Proving Grounds

Statistics for Basic Healer (Endless) should no longer be incorrectly displaying under Basic Tank (Endless).

PvP

Increased the amount of players that can be in Ashran to 150.

Primal Combatant PvP trinkets awarded from Gold Strongboxes should now contain stats that are more appropriate for the character's specialization.

Primal PvP trinkets should now be eligible to grant players the Gladiator's Distinction set bonus.

Primal Honor PvP gear should now correctly have a set bonus.

Items

Gnomish Net Launcher now has a level 91 requirement to equip and provides a more appropriate bonus to Versatility.

Invisibility Field's effect is now on a shared cooldown with other invisibility effects.

Bug Fixes

Resolved an issue where Draenor Perks for characters may sometimes not be saving correctly.

November 18

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Fishing Shack: The building should now correctly still provide a bonus while it's under construction.

Frostwall Mine: Fixed a number of True Iron Deposits that were spawning inside of pillars and terrain.

Mage Tower/Spirit Lodge: Characters under a shapeshifting effect should now be able to use an Ogre Waygate to return to their Garrisons.

Salvage Yard: The building should now correctly still provide a bonus while it's under construction.

Outposts

Nagrand: The building bonus for having a Corral should no longer incorrectly dismount Herbalists while harvesting resource nodes.

Spires of Arak: Bonus for the building should now switch correctly when changing buildings for the outpost.

Followers

Followers that are 3 or more levels below the mission level now receive 10% of the mission XP and bonus XP (up from 0%). Additional information on how Followers and mission level affects their XP gain can be found in a forum thread titled Followers and Garrison Missions XP.

Classes

Druid

Balance

Empowered Moonkin's clearcasting effect should no longer be incorrectly consumed if it's triggered while the Moonkin is in the middle of casting a spell.

Mage

Talents

Comet Storm should now correctly belong to the Frost school and is no longer usable if that school is locked.

Paladin

Talents

Holy Shield should now correctly deal damage when blocking normal attacks as well.

Quests

Bonus Objective: The Forgotten Caves: Gorg the Host should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.

Bonus Objective: The Howling Crag: Further increased the spawn rates of Pale Orcs and Rylak Eggs.

For the Children!: Manastorm's Duplicator should now be correctly awarded to characters that complete the quest.

Moving In: Characters that abandon the quest should now have an easier time reacquiring the quest and resume their progress on the main quest line.

Ogre Diplomacy: Players that have completed Into the Heart of Madness should no longer sometimes be placed into an incorrect phase and be unable to complete the quest.

Safety Measures: Increased the spawn rate of bog denizens.

Shadowmoon Invasion! is now automatically removed from the character's quest log if they upgrade to a Tier 3 Garrison as this quest is only available for Tier 2 Garrisons.

Skimming Off The Top: Increased the drop rates for Volatile Oil.

Strike While the Iron is Hot: Blocked off the entrance to the Iron Docks so players won't accidentally wander out of the quest area and wind up getting lost.

The Defense of Karabor: Players resurrecting at a graveyard during this quest should no longer be immediately attacked by Iron Horde NPCs.

The Iron Wolf: Players should now be able to receive completion credit if they've died and released during the quest.

Thunderlord Invasion!: The quest is now automatically removed from the character's quest log if they upgrade to a Tier 3 Garrison as this quest is only available for Tier 2 Garrisons.

Developer Commentary: The vendors' offerings were previously tied to the Highmaul raid unlock, but we wanted to make sure that players have useful items to spend their Apexis Crystals on, rather than positioning them exclusively as a catch-up item vendor. The final tier of Flawless gear (item level 655) will now unlock when the Highmaul raid becomes available, rather than when Blackrock Foundry becomes available.

Increased the spawn rates for creatures and NPCs in the Skettis Ruins area in Spires of Arak. [Requires a realm restart.] Additionally, resolved an issue where some creatures were incorrectly sharing loot with other players.

Grizzled Frostwolf Veteran's icon should no longer persist on the mini map after being defeated.

Rangari Jonaa now has a cooldown on their Scatter Shot ability.

Rotcap's icon should no longer persist on the mini map after being defeated.

Typhon's icon should no longer persist on the mini map after being defeated.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Characters with Warlords PvP gear that had its secondary item level activated due to being in PvP combat temporarily disqualifies them from queuing for Dungeons and Raid Finder. It can take up to 20 seconds after ending PvP combat before the character will be eligible to queue up normally.

Upper Blackrock Spire

During the Commander Tharbek encounter, players should no longer be kept in a constant state of combat between waves.

Resolved an issue where players could get stuck on a flight path while attempting to fly into their Garrisons.

Followers

Hulda Shadowblade should now be correctly awarded to players that have completed the quest, Standing United.

Classes

Warlock

Talents

Grimoire of Supremacy's summoned Terrorguards and Abyssals should now correctly have the Avoidance ability.

Quests

Articles of the Fallen: Players that have already completed To the Garrison should now be able to see Kal'gor the Honorable to complete the quest.

Battle in Ashran: The quest now requires players to obtain 100 Artifact Fragments and go to Shadow Hunter Ukambe (Horde) or Scout Valdez (Alliance) to complete the quest.

Battle of Thunder Pass: Dying or leaving the area during the middle of the Battle of Thunder Pass event should no longer prevent players from completing the event.

Bled Dry: Cages can now be opened by multiple players simultaneously.

Bushwhacker: Resolved an issue where players that have already completed A Heavy Helping Hand would be unable to turn in the quest.

Challenge of the Masters: Warlord Dharl of the Thrice-Bloodied Blade should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.

Draenor's Secret Power: Completion of this quest is now required before being able to move onto the next step of the Legendary quest chain. For characters that skipped this quest, completion of this quest has also been made into a requirement before being eligible for the next upgrade.

Fate of Karabor: Players joining a version of this quest that's already in-progress should now be able to receive completion credit.

Honor Has Its Rewards: Resolved an issue where Farseer Drek'Thar may sometimes not accept quest turn-ins.

Last Steps: Players joining a version of this quest that's already in-progress should now be able to receive completion credit.

Sol Sisters: Sol-Shaper Krashyx should no longer get stuck in evade mode.

The Battle for Shattrath: Players joining a version of this quest that's already in-progress should now be able to receive completion credit.

The Debt We Share: Players that are mounted should now be able to receive completion credit for this quest.

The Infested: Resolved an issue where players that have already completed A Heavy Helping Hand would be unable to turn in the quest.

The Iron Wolf: Added another way for characters to obtain The Iron Wolf invasion quest for characters that upgraded to a Tier 3 Garrison before completing the main Frostfire questline.

The Razorbloom: Resolved an issue where players that have already completed A Heavy Helping Hand would be unable to turn in the quest.

The Voice of Iyu: Resolved an issue where players that have already completed A Heavy Helping Hand would be unable to turn in the quest.

Creatures and NPCs

Grand Marshal Tremblade should now drop a Gleaming Ashmaul Strongbox for Horde characters when they're defeated.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Dungeons

Increased the amount of experience awarded for completing a Draenor level-up dungeon (Bloodmaul Slag Mines, Iron Docks, Auchindoun, and Skyreach) to be more rewarding.

Items looted from normal Level-100 dungeons now have a level requirement of 100 instead of 97.

Iron Docks

Players should no longer be incorrectly receiving credit for completing the Take Cover! achievement without actually completing the achievement.

Attempted to resolve an issue where Skulloc may sometimes not grant loot.

Slag Mines

Players that are dead should now correctly still receive credit for completing the achievement Come With Me If You Want to Live.

The Everbloom

Coagulated Genesaur Blood is now correctly flagged as a damage dealer trinket.

Challenge Mode

Salyin Battle Banner is no longer eligible to be used during Challenge Modes.

Resolved an issue where a realm may sometimes not have a Challenge Mode daily quest available.

Auchindoun: Reduced the amount of enemies to kill to 48 (down from 50).

Skyreach: Time needed to achieve a gold rating has been increased to 17 minutes (up from 15 minutes). Times for silver and bronze rating have been adjusted accordingly.

An item now needs to be at least item level 560 or above before being eligible to be scaled up to 650 in level 100 Battlegrounds and Arenas.

Items

The following items are now uncommon quality (green) so there's less award pop-ups when retrieving the them from Garrison work orders. There's been no change to the item's functionality or availability.

Primal Spirit

Savage Blood

Burnished Leather

Gearspring Parts

Hexweave Cloth

Metamorphic Crystal

Taladite Crystal

Truesteel Ingot

War Paints

Blackfire Scepter now grants a more modest increase to Intellect.

Bloodwood Wand now grants a less astronomical bonus to Spell Power.

Oralius' Whispering Crystal now increases all stats by 100 (down from 200).

Shieldtronic Shield should now correctly create a damage absorption shield instead of reflecting the damage back at an attacker.

Bug Fix

Resolved an issue where boosting characters that have XP disabled could wind up being unable to level.

Auchindoun: Players should now be able to take a Soul Transporter to get back to Teron'gor if the entire party died after defeating him.

PvP

Coliseum Champion's Spoils and Gleaming Ashmaul Strongboxes should no longer incorrectly have a chance to contain Epic quality PvP weapons.

Professions

Characters with over 600 skill should no longer continue to find catch-up items for the respective profession.

Items

Excavated Highmaul Thingamabob, Fungus-Infected Hydra Lung, Pulsating Brain of No'losh, and Thornmother Eye can now trigger its effect from non-healing spells as well.

Resolved an issue causing the Mists of Pandaria Legendary Cloaks and Metagems to remain effective for level 100 characters.

November 14

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Mine Level 2: Mining carts should now be easier to spot and should contain more than 1 piece of ore.

Followers

Artificer Romuul: Resolved an issue where characters were not receiving the quest.

Classes

Druid

Balance

Resolved an issue where the balance cycle may incorrectly force the Druid to stand up.

Quests

Defense of Karabor: Resolved an issue where characters may not receive completion credit for the quest.

I See Dead People: Resolved an issue where Bryan Finn may become unresponsive.

Kaelynara Sunchaser: Resolved an issue where characters were unable to return to their bodies in Spirit Form if they die inside the Jorune Mines.

Leave Nothing Behind!: Kur'ak the Binder now spawns more frequently.

Mulverick's Plight: Increased the drop rate for Mulverick's Axe.

Ogre Diplomacy: Increased the spawn rates of the Ango'rosh Ogres.

Save Wolf Home: Gronnstalker Korhol, Beastmaster Trokar, and Giantslayer Zhakta should now spawn more frequently. Additionally, resolved an issue where characters may be unable to complete profession quests while this quest is active.

The Defense of Karabor: Resolved an issue where completing this quest may cause characters to be unable to progress if they're also on the quest for The Righteous March.

Creatures

Echo of Murmur now spawns more frequently.

Made a pass on a number of rare creatures to allow multiple players to receive credit for personal loot if they helped defeat them.

Reduced the density of Squirrels in Nagrand and, critters and Icespine Hatchlings in Frostfire Ridge.

November 13

Update 3: 09:30pm PST

Classes

Monk

Brewmaster

Resolved an issue where Keg Smash may sometimes not generate Chi when used.

Quests

Artificer Romuul: Resolved an issue where players may sometimes not receive this quest after completing the Embaari Defense Crystal event.

Book Burning: Shadowborne Dementor should now always drop a Shadow Council Spellbook.

Shivertail's Den: Made a change to make it easier to receive credit for "Find Shivertail's Mother".

The Great Salvation: Draenei prisoners should spawn more frequently now.

The Warlord's Guard: Increased the spawn rates for Thunk, Gullok, and Splorg.

These Colors Don't Run: Characters now receive credit towards planting a Frostwolf Banner when they defeat or help in defeating a Bladespire Ogre with the exception of Bladespire Mauler, Chef, Boarbuster, Ogron, and Goresnout.

Wrath of Gronn: Increased the spawn rate for Captive Gronns.

Creatures and NPCs

Collision geometry has been added to Drek'Thar, Thrall, and Gazlowe in Frostfire Ridge.

Gorg the Host should now allow multiple players to receive credit for defeating it.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Resolved an issue where item levels for Battlegrounds, Arenas, and Skirmishes brackets below level 100 were not scaling correctly.

Items

Epic rings that are a part of the Legendary quest line can no longer be disenchanted.

Resolved an issue where the Eclipse indicator in the UI can sometimes not match the Druid's current Balance power.

Quests

Back to Work / Looking for Lumber: Greatly increased the number of trees available to mark for both Horde and Alliance versions of the quest. Additionally, Lunarfall Ravens respawn much more quickly now.

Closing the Door: Resolved an issue where Void Portals may sometimes not close correctly.

Honor Has Its Rewards: The Shamanstone no longer requires characters to interact with it and will grant its blessing to players that are nearby.

Quakefist: Quakefist now spawns outside of the cave, making it easier to locate.

Ship Salvage / What We Need: Drudgeboat Salvage should now respawn more quickly.

The Clarity Elixir: Pristine Star Lily can now be looted by multiple players at the same time.

These Colors Don't Run: Greatly increased the spawn rates for Bladespire Ogres and made them share tap credit.

Vengeance for the Fallen: Bleeding Hollow orcs respawn much more quickly now.

Creatures

Durotan at Beastwatch in Gorgrond is now significantly tougher.

Gorum can now be tapped by multiple characters. All players who contributed to defeating Gorum will now become eligible for loot.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Challenge Mode

Characters can switch specializations once more after the Challenge Mode has started.

November 12

Classes

Death Knight

Talents

Necrotic Plague now deals 20% more damage.

Druid

Balance

Lunar Peak should no longer incorrectly display as having 2 charges (it was always only 1 charge). Additionally, the tooltip will be updated in a future patch to clarify the damage increase only applies to Moonfire's initial damage.

Binding Shot should now correctly stun targets affected by silence when they move more than 5 yards from the arrow. Additionally, targets should no longer incorrectly break out of stealth on entering Binding Shot's area of effect.

Resolved an issue where Posthaste may sometimes not trigger correctly with Disengage.

Mage

Fire

Combustion is now learned at level 80 (up from level 77).

Monk

Brewmaster

Stance of the Sturdy Ox now increases armor by 75% (up from 50%), and reduces magic damage taken by 15% (up from 10%).

Priest

General

Power Word: Shield now absorbs 20% more damage.

Discipline

Holy Nova's healing has been reduced by 41%.

Penance's damage and healing has been increased by 20%.

Warlock

Destruction

Fire and Brimstone should now correctly hit all secondary targets within 10 yards, regardless of whether they're in combat with the Warlock.

Talents

Damage caused by Burning Rush while Soul Link is active should no longer incorrectly cause the Warlock to go into combat.

Stacks of Demonbolt debuff should no longer be incorrectly removed by Hand of Protection.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

The Postmaster received a talking to and should no longer be mailing large amounts of unimportant items to players.

Pet Battle

Grommloc, the delightfully dreadful baby murloc masquerading as Grommash Hellscream, legendary leader of the Warsong clan is now available. Players eligible to receive this pet will find it in their in-game mailbox. An Achievement for obtaining this battle pet will be added in a future patch.

Items

Darkmoon Top Hat can now only be used while the Darkmoon Faire is active.

November 5

Racials

Dwarven Stoneform ability should no longer cause the character to break out of stealth.

Classes

Death Knight

General

Outbreak modified by Glyph of Outbreak should no longer incorrectly consume Runic Power if the attack misses.

Hunter

General

Explosive Trap modified by Glyph of Explosive Trap should now correctly knock enemies away from the trap instead of away from the Hunter.

Freezing Trap should now trigger correctly when a stealthed character walks over it.

Survival

Serpent Sting should now be correctly applied to targets even if they move more than 40 yards away when struck by Arcane Shot.

Hunter Pets

Tenacity Pet Specialization: Blood of the Rhino now reduces the pet's physical damage taken by 15% instead of increasing armor by 20%.

Tenacity Pet Specialization: Great Stamina now increases the pet's health by 60% (up from 12%).

Carrion Bird: Bloody Screech can now be set to autocast.

Priest

Discipline

Divine Aegis should now correctly factor in the increase from Might of the Mountain racial passive.

Holy Nova's healing has been decreased by 15%.

Talents

Divine Star's healing or damage (depending on Specialization) has been increased by 15%.

Warlock

General

Doomguards should no longer run out of energy from casting Doom Bolts.

Warrior

Talents

Sudden Death is now 2.5 RPPM (real procs per minute increased by Haste) instead of a 10% chance to activate from autoattacks.

Quests

Just Around the Corner: Characters should now be able to interact with Sparksocket's Tools.

The Brothers Bronzebeard: Brann's Flying Machine has been made to be more sturdy and should no longer be destroyed too quickly.

The Fall of Neferset City: Dark Pharaoh Tekahn should now spawn in correctly, allowing players to complete the quest.

The Strength of Tortolla: The quest can now be completed by characters with the PvP flag enabled.

Truce?: Characters should now be able to interact with Dull Carving Knife.

World Environment

Fixed an issue where Zidormi may send players to an incorrect phase in the Blasted Lands.

Timeless Isle

Resolved an issue where Mist-Covered Treasure Chest could sometimes be empty.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Terrace of Endless Spring

Protectors of the Endless: Protector Kaolan's Defiled Ground ability now deals less damage.

Heart of Fear

[Requires a realm restart.] Garalon: Destroying Garalon's Legs should now correctly damage Garalon and resolved a situation where players facing one of the legs may incorrectly receive an error message that they're not.

Dungeons

Siege of Niuzao Temple: Players should now be able to complete the achievement, Where's My Air Support?

Well of Eternity: Players should now be able to complete the achievement, That's Not Canon!

Challenge Mode

Once a Challenge Mode has started, characters can no longer change specializations, talents, or glyphs.

PvP

Resolved an issue where some eligible characters did not receive a Prideful Gladiator's Cloud Serpent.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Battlegrounds

Characters should now receive a popup notifying them with the amount of bonus Honor that was awarded at the end of a Random Battleground match.

Arenas

Priests entering an Arena match while in Spirit of Redemption form should no longer die during the Arena Preparation phase.

Professions

Mixology should be working correctly doubles the duration of flasks and elixirs once more.

Items

Adjusted a number of item enhancements from earlier expansions that were providing a larger than intended bonus.

Adjusted a number of potions from the Cataclysm expansion that were providing a larger than intended bonus.

Crocolisk Au Gratin should now correctly provide a buff to Haste and Stamina instead of Expertise and Stamina.

Fisherman's Feast now provides a more reasonable buff to Stamina.

Formula: Enchant Ring - Striking no longer has a use effect as the formula it teaches no longer exists.

Haunted Memento's Haunted effect is now a buff that can be removed by the character.

Bug Fixes

Resolved an issue where items transmogrified into The Horseman's Horrific Hood or The Horseman's Sinister Slicer could revert back to their original state.

Resolved an issue where boosting characters could cause them to forget spells that have been taught by items.

November 3

Darkmoon Faire

Reduced the levels of Moonfang, Moonfang Packmate, Moonfang Dreadhowl, Moonfang Snarler, and Darkmoon Rabbit back to pre-Warlords expansion levels. The creatures needs to respawn for the changes to take effect.

Heirloom items sold at the Darkmoon Faire should no longer have a gold cost associated with them.

Firebird's Challenge: Blazing Rings are no longer shared with other players.

It's Hammer Time: Characters that have been flagged as PvP enabled should now be able to complete the quest.

Classes

Hunter

Talents

Damage from A Murder of Crows can no longer be dodged.

Priest

Talents

Discipline: Spirit Shell's damage absorption shield should no longer be weaker than intended.

Rogue

Talents

Burst of Speed should now be usable even if the Rogue is under the effects of other movement speed buffs.

Shaman

Elemental

Earthquake's knock down effect is no longer affected by diminishing returns, but the knock down effect now only has a duration of 1.5 seconds.

Quests

Blood of the Betrayer: Rogues should now be able to remove Arcane Infused Armor from Nalice, and be able to complete the quest.

Dah, Nunt... Dah, Nunt...: Players should no longer remain stunned indefinitely and be able to complete the quest.

Get Kraken!: Increased the health for North Sea Kraken by 1000%.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Raids

Throne of Thunder

[Requires a realm restart.] Dark Winds debuff should no longer incorrectly persist on the character, preventing them from being able to use mounts.

Defeating Sartharion too quickly should no longer cause him to not drop a mount.

Black Temple

Illidan Stormrage: Fixed an issue where defeating Flames of Azzinoth too quickly in phase 2 may cause Illidan to not land.

Dungeons

Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom: Resolved an issue where players defeating multiple packs of creatures in the room too quickly could cause Jedoga Shadowseeker to remain not attackable.

Hellfire Ramparts: Players should now be able to loot the Reinforced Fel Iron Chest after defeating Vazruden the Herald.

Razorfen Downs: Resolved an issue where Amnennar the Coldbringer may sometimes fail to be summoned when Death Speaker Blackthorn is defeated.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Battlegrounds

Increased Honor gains for Arathi Basin, Deepwind Gorge, Eye of the Storm, and The Battle for Gilneas. Honor is now awarded for every 150 resources gathered (up from Honor being awarded for every 250 resources gathered).

Returning a flag in Battlegrounds should correctly play an appropriate sound once more.

Items

Made a number of adjustments where lower level food items were providing a larger than intended buff.

UI

Timeless Isle Tokens and legendary weapons looted during the fight with Kael'thas Sunstrider in Tempest Keep are no longer included in the guild news panel.

Bags set to "Ignore this bag" should now be saving the setting correctly when the character logs out or zones into a new area.

/console colorblindshader [0-8] has been re-enabled and replaced with /console colorblindsimulator [0-8].

Bug Fixes

Resolved a frame rate stuttering issue that was affecting some Mac OS clients.

Mobile Armory's guild chat should be working once more.

October 30

Hallow's End

Exquisite Costume Set: "The Lich King" now allows the user to ride on a mount while transformed.

Classes

Resolved an issue where durations for periodic effects were not always being extended for the full amount when refreshed by another ability.

Death Knight

Unholy

Necrosis’ damage has been increased by 67%.

Scourge Strike’s damage has been increased by 50%.

Unholy Might now increases Strength by 5% (down from 10%).

Talents

Defile should no longer be growing in radius and damage by more than the intended amount.

Druid

General

Druids are no longer able to switch specializations while in Flight Form.

Druid shapeshift forms should now override the transformation from Fire-Watcher's Oath.

Wrath’s damage has been increased by 25%.

Balance

Starfall’s damage has been increased by 75%.

Starfire’s damage has been increased by 25%.

Starsurge’s damage has been increased by 25%. Additionally, resolved an issue where Starsurge may sometimes provide an incorrect Lunar or Solar Empowerment.

Restoration

Nature's Swiftness should no longer incorrectly allow Cyclone to be cast while in any shapeshift form.

Talents

Nature's Vigil now heals nearby targets for 20% of the healing done (down from 30%), but can now trigger from Multistrikes.

Smite critical hits should no longer incorrectly cause the target to be healed for a greater than intended amount through Atonement while also receiving a larger than intended damage shield that's granted through Divine Aegis.

Shadow

Mastery: Mental Anguish now increases damage by 3.125% per point (up from 2.5%).

Glyphs

Glyph of Inner Fire and Glyph of Inner Sanctum should now be correctly removed as those glyphs no longner exist.

Rogue

Combat

Killing Spree should no longer cancel or end prematurely if one of their targets is immune to damage.

Shaman

General

Lava Burst's visuals should no longer be excessively large.

Elemental

Earthquake's visuals are no longer visible for friendly players.

Shamanism now increases Lightning Bolt's damage by 70% (up from 36%).

Enhancement

Fire Nova now has a maximum of 7 novas that can be triggered if more than 7 targets are affected by Flame Shock.

Maelstrom Weapon should no longer incorrectly persist after the Shaman has switched to a different specialization.

Talents

Echo of the Elements effect should now be correctly consumed during Ascendance.

Elemental Blast's damage has been increased by 20%.

Warlock

Demonology

Molten Core should no longer incorrectly trigger its effect based on the casting Warlock's health

Resolved an issue where Soul Fire's damage was reduced by a greater than intended amount.

Destruction

Resolved a situation where interactions between Immolate, Fire and Brimstone, and Cataclysm could cause Immolate to deal less damage than intended.

Talents

Cataclysm now has a slight visual which can be seen by the Warlock's allies when it's being cast.

Warrior

General

Heroic Leap should no longer allow the Warrior to ignore vertical terrain restrictions while in a Dungeon, Raid, or Battleground.

Whirlwind’s damage has been reduced by 30%.

Talents

Ravager’s damage has been reduced by 25%.

Slam’s damage has been reduced by 30%.

Quests

Breaking the Emperor's Shield: Nakk'rakas should no longer despawn, allowing players to complete the quest.

Creatures

Damp Shambler's Renewing Mists now heals for less.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Siege of Orgrimmar

Paragons of the Klaxxi: Resolved an issue where Kil'ruk the Wind-Reaver could not be looted.

Downfall Wing 4: Resolved an issue where Gnomish Gyrocopters may not be destroying Thresher Turrets for Alliance players.

Throne of Thunder

Jin'rokh the Breaker's Ionization effect should no longer deal an excessive amount of damage.

Icecrown Citadel

The Lich King's Harvest Soul ability should no longer deal an excessive amount of damage.

Trial of the Crusader

Anub'arak's Leeching Swarm should no longer be healing Anub'arak for an excessive amount.

Dungeons

Blackrock Caverns: Angered Earth should now spawn in when Rom'ogg Bonecrusher hits a player with Quake.

Razorfen Kraul: Groyat, the Blind Hunter's Drain Life ability should no longer damage or heal for an excessive amount.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Arenas

Tol'viron Arena should now correctly have Dampening.

Battlegrounds

Deepwind Gorge: Status of the mine cart should now be updating correctly.

Isle of Conquest: Huge Seaforium Bombs no longer have a level requirement to interact with them.

Items

Elixirs from the Cataclysm expansion should no longer be more powerful than their counterparts from Mists of Pandaria.

Boiled Silkworm Pupa now provides a buff to Critical Strike instead of Hit.

Claws of Agony and Claws of Torment's 2-piece set bonus now gives a more reasonable amount of Haste.

Manual Crowd Pummeler's on-use effect now grants a more reasonable increase to Haste.

Technique: Glyph of the Executor no longer has an effect as the Glyph it teaches no longer exists.

Zandalarian Hero Badge now provides a more reasonable amount of Armor.

UI

Settings for SET ffxGlow should no longer be resetting when exiting the game client.

October 28

Quests

Roll Club: Serpent's Spine should no longer cause players to float and allow them to complete the quest.

Crushing the Crown: Fixed an issue where the Crown Chemical Company Wagon in Darkshore was not granting quest completion credit.

Lovely Card buffs no longer work while in a Challenge Mode dungeon, Normal, Heroic, or Mythic difficulty Draenor raid.

Players should now be able to complete the achievements Beacon of Love and They Really Love Me!

Manufactured Love Prism now has a 60-second cooldown (up from 30 seconds).

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Tier 3 Garrisons: Dungeoneer's Training Dummy for healing and damage have swapped places so melee classes are less likely to trigger the tanking dummy by accident.

Map Icon for the Garrison should now appear correctly for characters that had undergone a faction change.

Alliance Tier 3 Garrison: Dungeoneer's Training Dummy for healing and damage have swapped places so melee classes are less likely to trigger the tanking dummy by accident.

Resolved an issue where players may sometimes not correctly accrue rested experience when entering their Garrisons.

Resolved an issue where players may become stuck or be disconnected while attempting to visit other Garrisons.

Book of Garrison Blueprints should now be consumed when learned and can also be destroyed.

Resolved a number of issues where players may sometimes be unable to enter their Garrisons.

Disturbed Podlings and Goren Protectors that spawns inside of the Garrison should now be lootable if they're killed by an NPC (like a Bodyguard). An additional hotfix is being worked on that will also apply this while encountering Disturbed Podlings and Goren Protectors outside of the Garrison as well.

Ashran has been re-enabled as a potential daily strategic assault choice. This reverts a change from November 21.

Temporarily disabled Ashran as a daily quest choice while we continue to troubleshoot issues with some of the daily quests being offered.

Resolved an issue where players could get stuck on a flight path while attempting to fly into their Garrisons.

Primal Fury: Players that have completed the quest before the hotfix from January 21 should now correctly receive Thisalee Crow (Alliance) or Choluna (Horde) as a Follower.

Primal Fury: Completing the quest should now correctly award Thisalee Crow (Alliance) or Choluna (Horde) as a Follower. A fix to award the followers for players that have already completed the quest will be made at a later date.

Socrethar's Demise: Resolved an issue that could cause the event to not reset correctly.

Socrethar's Demise: Resolved an issue that could cause the banner used to challenge Socrethar to not work correctly.

Garrison Buildings

Work orders for the following Horde buildings (Mine, Herb Garden, Goblin Workshop, War Mill, and Trading Post) and Alliance buildings (Dwarven Bunker, Gnomish Gearworks, Trading Post) should now correctly contribute credit towards the achievements for Working Some Orders and Working More Orders.

Work Orders should now also work with materials and reagents that are in the character's bank and reagent bank.

Items obtained from Garrison Missions above level 615 now have a chance to be Warforged, contain a socket, or tertiary stats.

Barn

Barn: Trapping now awards a caged beast for each nearby party member with an appropriate level barn. More information regarding the change can be found on the forums.

Deadly Iron Trap now only traps an elite creature (Direfang Alpha, Ironhide Bull, and Wetland Trampler) that the player or party has tap credit on.

Increased the spawn rate and number of spawn points for Direfang Alpha, Ironhide Bull, and Wetland Trampler. This hotfix will be deployed in combination with the hotfix from January 7 to increase spawn rates slightly.

Barracks: Training dummies have been temporarily removed from the Garrison.

Barracks Level 2: Bodyguard followers accompanying the player are now more likely to assist with the player's current target.

Dwarven Bunker / War Mill

Dwarven Bunker / War Mill: Players can now accrue as many Iron Horde Scraps as they want.

Dwarven Bunker / War Mill: Armor transmogrification items obtained from the Dwarven Bunker/War Mill are now truly account-bound and can be sent to other characters on the same Battle.net account.

Dwarven Bunker / War Mill: Work orders now award more Iron Horde Scraps and increased the drop rates for Follower Enhancements.

Dwarven Bunker / War Mill Level 2: Added a 2 hour grace period for cosmetic gear purchases from this building, allowing characters to sell the item back for a full refund. Note that utilizing the item for transmogrification will remove this grace period.

Dwarven Bunker / War Mill: Completing the Scraps of Iron quest should no longer remove more Iron Horde Scraps than needed.

Lumber Mill: Legacy of the Ancients quest now has increased spawn rates for Medium Timber around the Botani Marsh area in Shadowmoon Valley.

Lumber Mill: Greatly increased the number of trees available to mark for both Horde and Alliance versions of the quests Back to Work and Looking for Lumber. Additionally, Lunarfall Ravens respawn much more quickly now.

Mine Level 2: Mining carts should now be easier to spot and should contain more than 1 piece of ore.

Resolved a situation that could cause ore and mining carts in a player's Garrison to despawn.

Salvage Yard

Salvage Yard: Special transmogrification items obtained from crates of salvage are now Rare (blue) quality to help distinguish them. Additionally, these items are now able to be disenchanted.

Salvage Yard: Salvage recovered from a Garrison Mission should now always contain an item.

Salvage Yard: Awards for salvage have been split into 3 tiers based on the level of the Garrison Mission (Levels 90-94, Levels 95-99, and Level 100). Additionally, the mission needs to be successful for a chance to receive salvage with Level 100 missions having a guaranteed chance on success.

Salvage Yard: The building should now correctly still provide a bonus while it's under construction.

Stables

Stables: Corrected an issue where players could complete The Stable Master achievement without owning a Level 3 Stable.

Stables Level 2: Characters should now be immune to being dazed while riding their mounts.

Stables Level 2: Resolved an issue where characters were not remaining mounted while interacting with herb nodes.

Nagrand Corral: The building bonus for having a Corral should no longer incorrectly dismount Herbalists while harvesting resource nodes.

Nagrand Tankworks: Wor'var Demolisher and Telaari Siege Engine now deals less damage against other players.

Spires of Arak: Bonus for the building should now switch correctly when changing buildings for the outpost.

Followers

Followers that are 3 or more levels below the mission level now receive 10% of the mission XP and bonus XP (up from 0%). Additional information on how Followers and mission level affects their XP gain can be found in a forum thread titled Followers and Garrison Missions XP.

Artificer Romuul: Resolved an issue where characters were not receiving the quest.

Artificer Romuul: Resolved an issue where players may sometimes not receive this quest after completing the Embaari Defense Crystal event.

Hulda Shadowblade should now be correctly awarded to players that have completed the quest, Standing United.

Leeroy Jenkins: Resolved an issue where characters that were dead or in Spirit of Redemption form when completing the achievement Leeeeeeeeeeeeeroy...? may sometimes not receive Leeroy Jenkins as a follower.

Magister Krelas should now work correctly in a party for Followers with the Elvenkind trait.

Magister Serena should now work correctly in a party for Followers with the Humanist trait.

Garrison Missions

It is now possible to continue to receive Level 95-99 missions even when all Followers are level 100.

Conquest Garrison Missions have been disabled temporarily from the pool of available missions for players that are eligible to receive them.

Characters are now guaranteed to have level 90-94 Garrison Missions available if they have Followers in the level 90-94 range and level 95-99 Garrison Missions available if they have Followers in the level 95-99 range.

Racials

Dwarf

Dwarven Stoneform ability should no longer cause the character to break out of stealth.

Orc

Hardiness now reduces stun duration by 15% (up from 10%).

Undead

Will of the Forsaken has a 2-minute cooldown once more (down from 3 minutes).

Secondary Stats

The Haste stat is now 11.1% more effective. For example, characters at level 100 now receive a 1% increase per 90 Haste (up from 1% per 100 Haste).

Classes

Abilities that heal based on a percentage of total/maximum health should now be able to be correctly modified by healing debuff modifiers.

Player pets should now correctly rejoin the player after taking a flight path or using a vehicle.

Resolved an issue where durations for periodic effects were not always being extended for the full amount when refreshed by another ability.

Death Knight

General

Blood Boil’s damage has been reduced by 33.3%.

Blood Plague, when used in PvP combat now has a duration of 24 seconds and may no longer have its periodic duration extended past 30 seconds.

Frost Fever, when used in PvP combat now has a duration of 24 seconds and may no longer have its periodic duration extended past 30 seconds.

Outbreak modified by Glyph of Outbreak should no longer incorrectly consume Runic Power if the attack misses.

Frost

Frost Strike's damage has increased by 7%.

Howling Blast's damage has increased by 7%.

Icy Talons now causes the Death Knight to gain 20% (up from 5%) more of the Haste stat from all sources.

Obliterate's damage has increased by 7%.

Unholy

Festering Strike's damage has been increased by 28%.

Necrosis’ damage has been increased by 67%.

Scourge Strike's damage has been increased by 28%.

Scourge Strike’s damage has been increased by 50%.

Unholy Might now increases Strength by 5% (down from 10%).

Talents

Breath of Sindragosa should now work correctly with the Plaguebearer talent, extending the duration of diseases when used.

Conversion for Frost Death Knights should now correctly count as 15 Runic Power spent toward other abilities that trigger based on Runic Power spent.

Conversion now costs 15 Runic Power per second for Frost Death Knights (up from 10 Runic Power).

Defile should no longer be growing in radius and damage by more than the intended amount.

Necrotic Plague, when used in PvP combat now has a duration of 24 seconds and may no longer have its periodic duration extended past 30 seconds.

Necrotic Plague now deals 20% more damage.

Glyphs

Glyph of Death and Decay should now also apply its effect for Death Knights with the Defile talent.

Armor Sets

Tier-17 2-piece bonus for Unholy Death Knights in addition to its current effect also causes Dark Transformation to apply an additional 40% damage bonus to the ghoul, increasing total pet damage by roughly 20%.

PvP 4-piece set bonus for Blood Death Knights should no longer be incorrectly applied to other pets or guardians.

PvP 2-piece set bonus for Death Knights from previous PvP Seasons should now grant 1 Runic Power when Chains of Ice is used (down from 10 Runic Power).

Druid

General

Resolved an issue where Druids may sometimes lose Flight Form (and fall) when logging in or exiting from a Battleground or Arena match.

Druids are no longer able to switch specializations while in Flight Form.

Druid shapeshift forms should now override the transformation from Fire-Watcher's Oath.

Ferocious Bite no longer loses damage when cast with a low amount of Energy while Berserk is active. Berserk will still discount Cat Form abilities' Energy cost, but will include the bonus damage as if it weren't cast with Berserk active.

Empowered Moonkin's clearcasting effect should no longer be incorrectly consumed if it's triggered while the Moonkin is in the middle of casting a spell.

Lunar Peak should no longer incorrectly display as having 2 charges (it was always only 1 charge). Additionally, the tooltip will be updated in a future patch to clarify the damage increase only applies to Moonfire's initial damage.

Moonfire, when used in PvP combat now has a duration of 24 seconds and may no longer have its periodic duration extended past 30 seconds.

Shooting Stars should no longer fail to trigger if the most recent target of Moonfire or Sunfire dies.

Starfall's effect is now only suppressed when shapeshifting into a non-Moonkin form. Shifting back into the appropriate form will allow the effect to resume.

Starfall now deals 33% less damage in PvP combat.

Starfall’s damage has been increased by 75%.

Starfire’s damage has been increased by 25%.

Starsurge’s damage has been increased by 25%. Additionally, resolved an issue where Starsurge may sometimes provide an incorrect Lunar or Solar Empowerment.

Sunfall should no longer incorrectly have a chance to trigger Nature's Vigil.

Sunfall (Starfall modified by Glyph of the Solstice) should now also be dealing 33% less damage in PvP combat.

Sunfire, when used in PvP combat may no longer have its periodic duration extended past 30 seconds.

Resolved an issue where the balance cycle may incorrectly force the Druid to stand up.

Resolved an issue where the Eclipse indicator in the UI can sometimes not match the Druid's current Balance power.

Feral

Leader of the Pack should now correctly trigger its heal for Druids that have learned the talent, Claws of Shirvallah.

Nature's Swiftness should now correctly increase the healing over time effect and duration of Regrowth.

Nature's Swiftness should no longer incorrectly allow Cyclone to be cast while in any shapeshift form.

Wild Growth's healing should now smoothly increase with Haste instead of having breakpoints. Total healing for the ability will vary slightly depending how much Haste the Druid had previously; with healing increasing slightly for most Druids.

Talents

Heart of the Wild's bonuses are now halved when used while in PvP combat.

Incarnation: Tree of Life's bonuses should no longer be incorrectly retained without having the talent learned.

Nature's Vigil should no longer be dealing excessive damage to high level targets by healing low level NPCs.

Nature's Vigil now heals nearby targets for 20% of the healing done (down from 30%), but can now trigger from Multistrikes.

Pulverize (Guardian) now extends up to 130% of its normal duration when refreshed, similar to periodic effects.

Soul of the Forest (Restoration) should now interact and correctly apply its healing bonus while Nature's Swiftness is active.

Armor Sets

Tier-16 set bonuses no longer work for level 100 Feral Druids.

PvP 2-piece set bonus for Balance Druids can now only trigger once every 15 seconds.

PvP 2-piece set bonus for Restoration Druids should no longer incorrectly consume Nature's Swiftness when the root effect is triggered.

PvP 4-piece set bonus for Guardian Druids should no longer be incorrectly applied to other pets or guardians.

Binding Shot should now correctly stun targets affected by silence when they move more than 5 yards from the arrow. Additionally, targets should no longer incorrectly break out of stealth on entering Binding Shot's area of effect.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Chimera should now work correctly with the Glyph of Mirrored Blades.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Chimera should now interact correctly with Glyph of Deterrence.

Damage from A Murder of Crows can no longer be dodged.

Focusing Shot now has a 2.5 second cast time (down from 3 seconds), and its damage has been increased by 25%.

Resolved an issue where Posthaste may sometimes not trigger correctly with Disengage.

Armor Sets

PvP 2-piece set bonus for Hunters should no longer incorrectly trigger its effect when Freezing Trap activates on a target that is immune.

Mage

General

Conjured food no longer has a level requirement to use.

Arcane

Arcane Barrage's damage has increased by 16%.

Arcane Blast's damage has increased by an additional 16%.

Arcane Blast's damage has been increased by 10%.

Arcane Explosion's damage has increased by 10%.

Arcane Missiles' damage has increased by 16%.

Resolved an issue where notifications for Arcane Missiles charges may sometimes not display properly.

Chi Wave should now correctly bounce up to 7 times to targets within 25 yards.

Glyphs

Glyph of Keg Smash should now correctly increase the range of Keg Smash.

Armor Sets

Tier-17 4-piece set bonus for Brewmaster Monks now only triggers when you Purify Moderate or Heavy Stagger.

PvP 2-piece set bonus for Brewmaster and Windwalker Monks now only triggers while in PvP combat.

PvP 2-piece set bonus for Brewmaster and Windwalker Monks should now correctly reduce the Energy cost of Jab.

PvP 2-piece set bonus for Mistweaver Monks should no longer incorrectly apply its effect to both the casting Monk and target at the same time.

PvP 4-piece set bonus for Brewmaster Monks now confers 75% of the Guard effect to the 2 nearest allies.

PvP 4-piece set bonus for Brewmaster Monks should no longer be incorrectly applied to other pets or guardians.

Paladin

General

Eternal Flame's initial healing has been increased by 25% for Protection and Retribution Paladins.

Flash of Light's healing has been reduced by 20% for Protection and Retribution Paladins.

Hand of Freedom modified by Glyph of Hand of Freedom should now correctly reduce the remaining duration of all loss of control effects when used on other players.

Seal of Insight's healing effect should now be able to Multistrike or Critically Strike.

Word of Glory's healing has been increased by 25% for Protection and Retribution Paladins.

Holy

Beacon of Light's sound effects should no longer be excessively loud.

Protection

Mastery: Divine Bulwark now increases Shield of the Righteous' damage reduction by 0.5% per point, down from 0.75% per point.

Grand Crusader now also has a 30% chance to trigger its effect from Crusader Strike and Hammer of the Righteous.

Sacred Duty now causes the Paladin to gain 30% (up from 5%) more of the Haste stat from all sources.

Seal of Truth now deals 80% less damage for Protection Paladins and should primarily use Seal of Insight for defensive value.

Seraphim now grants 750 of each stat for Protection Paladins (down from 1000).

Shield of the Righteous should no longer incorrectly provide a greater than intended reduction to physical damage taken after refreshing the ability.

Shield of the Righteous now reduces physical damage taken by 25% (up from 20%).

Talents

Clarity of Will's (Discipline) damage absorption shield can now stack up to a maximum of 75% of the casting Priest's health (instead of up to 50% of the target's health).

Empowered Seals (Protection, Retribution) should no longer incorrectly be providing a 30% increase to attack speed on top of its intended benefits.

Hand of Purity should no longer incorrectly affect damage over time abilities that are immune from this damage reduction effect.

Holy Shield should now correctly deal damage when blocking normal attacks as well.

Selfless Healer should now be correctly dispelled instead of having only 1 stack dispelled at a time.

Glyphs

Glyph of Alabaster Shield now increases Shield of the Righteous’ damage by 3% (down from 10%) per stack.

Glyph of Illumination is obsolete and should no longer be incorrectly retained by some Paladins.

Armor Sets

Tier-15 2-piece set bonus for Protection Paladins should no longer work for level-100 characters.

Tier-16 set bonuses no longer work for level 100 Holy Paladins.

PvP 2-piece set bonus for Retribution Paladins, Righteous Determination should now be dispellable.

PvP 2-piece set bonus for Retribution Paladins now reduces the duration of all incoming crowd control effects by 25% (down from 50%).

PvP 4-piece set bonus for Protection Paladins should no longer be incorrectly applied to other pets or guardians.

Hotfix to change the PvP 4-piece set bonus for Retribution Paladins announced from January 5 has been deployed.

PvP 4-piece set bonus for Retribution Paladins now increases damage and healing by 2% per Holy Power spent (down from 3%) for 4 seconds (down from 8 seconds).

Priest

General

Mass Dispel should no longer be incorrectly dispelling Cyclone without a Glyph of Mass Dispel equipped.

Mass Dispel modified by Glyph of Mass Dispel should no longer incorrectly dispel Cyclones cast by a friendly player.

Power Word: Shield’s absorption has been reduced by 15%.

Power Word: Shield critical hits should now correctly absorb only 150% of normal in PvP.

Power Word: Shield now absorbs 20% more damage.

Silence (Discipline) now prevents the target from casting spells for 2 seconds (down from 5 seconds). There is no change to the ability for Shadow Priests.

Discipline

Divine Aegis should now correctly absorb only 50% as much in PvP.

Divine Aegis should now correctly factor in the increase from Might of the Mountain racial passive.

Holy Nova's healing has been reduced by 41%.

Penance's damage and healing has been increased by 20%.

Smite critical hits should no longer incorrectly cause the target to be healed for a greater than intended amount through Atonement while also receiving a larger than intended damage shield that's granted through Divine Aegis.

Holy

Lightwell's heal over time effect should now be able to Multistrike or Critically Strike.

Binding Heal should now correctly heal both the Priest and friendly target.

Shadow

Mastery: Mental Anguish now increases damage by 3.125% per point (up from 2.5%).

Talents

Clarity of Will's (Discipline) protective ward on a critical effect should now be correctly reduced by Battle Fatigue in PvP combat.

Divine Star's healing or damage (depending on Specialization) has been increased by 15%.

Spirit Shell's (Discipline) damage absorption shield should no longer be weaker than intended.

Insanity's (Shadow) snare should now be correctly affected by abilities that remove or reduces the duration of snare effects.

Glyphs

Glyph of the Inquisitor should now correctly be dealing self-damage against the Priest (with a chance to break crowd control effects) in PvP combat against enemy players with glyphed crowd control abilities that removes damage over time effects on the target.

Glyph of Inner Fire and Glyph of Inner Sanctum should now be correctly removed as those glyphs no longer exist.

Glyph of Reflective Shield should now correctly only reflect damage on self-cast Power Word: Shields and not when it's cast on other players.

Armor Sets

Tier-16 set bonuses no longer work for level 100 Holy Priests.

Rogue

General

Kidney Shot's stun effect is now capped at 6 seconds while in PvP combat. Revealing Strike can still increase the stun duration, but not beyond 6 seconds.

Assassination

Assassin's Resolve now increases damage by 17% (up from 10%).

Envenom should no longer incorrectly consume all of the Rogue's combo points if the ability misses or was dodged.

Venomous Wounds' damage has increased by 20%.

Combat

Blade Flurry is now able to trigger from Multistrikes.

Blade Flurry now also strikes up to 4 additional nearby opponents for 35% of normal damage (up from 30%).

Killing Spree should no longer cancel or end prematurely if one of their targets is immune to damage.

Vitality now grants 50% additional Attack Power (up from 40%).

Subtlety

Backstab's damage has increased by 20%.

Hemorrhage's periodic effect should now be able to critically strike.

Hemorrhage's damage has increased by 30%.

Honor Among Thieves now only triggers its effect in combat.

Honor Among Thieves should no longer cause Rogues with the Anticipation talent to stand up after receiving a Critical heal.

Lava Burst's (Elemental, Restoration) damage has been increased by 35%.

Lava Burst now has a chance equal to the character's Critical Strike chance to trigger an additional Multistrike. This is separate from the standard two chances for Lava Burst to Multistrike; one Lava Burst could trigger up to three Multistrikes (two standard Multistrikes, plus one more from Critical Strike chance).

Lava Burst's visuals should no longer be excessively large.

Lightning Bolt's damage has increased by 10%.

Lightning Shield should no longer expire prematurely when Cyclone is cast on an Elemental Shaman.

Totemic Recall should now correctly refund the mana cost back when used.

Elemental

Earthquake's damage has increased by 10%.

Earthquake can now only Stun a target once per cast.

Earthquake's knock down effect is no longer affected by diminishing returns, but the knock down effect now only has a duration of 1.5 seconds.

Earthquake's visuals are no longer visible for friendly players.

Lava Beam's damage has increased by 10%.

Shamanism now increases Lightning Bolt's damage by 70% (up from 36%).

Enhancement

Fire Nova now causes up to 6 novas (down from 7).

Fire Nova now has a maximum of 7 novas that can be triggered if more than 7 targets are affected by Flame Shock.

Lava Lash's damage has increased by an additional 20%.

Lava Lash's damage has been increased by 20%.

Maelstrom Weapon will no longer increase the damage or healing effects of spells that consume the Ancestral Swiftness buff.

Maelstrom Weapon should no longer incorrectly persist after the Shaman has switched to a different specialization.

Stormstrike’s damage has been increased by 11.1%.

Stormstrike's damage has increased by an additional 20%.

Stormstrike's damage has been increased by 20%.

Restoration

Restorative Waves now increases all healing done by 30% (up from 25%).

Riptide modified by Glyph of Riptide should no longer incorrectly consume Echo of the Elements when cast.

Healing received through Spirit Link Totem redistributing player health to match each other should no longer be incorrectly affected by Dampening.

Talents

Echo of the Elements effect should now be correctly consumed during Ascendance.

Elemental Blast's damage has increased by an additional 10%.

Elemental Blast's damage has been increased by 20%.

Armor Sets

PvP 2-piece set bonus for Enhancement Shaman now reduces the duration of all incoming crowd control effects by 25% (down from 50%).

Warlock

General

Dark Soul's cooldown should now work correctly when used in conjunction with the talent Archimonde's Darkness and Glyph of Dark Soul.

Doomguards should no longer run out of energy from casting Doom Bolts.

Resolved an issue where Glyph of Eye of Kilrogg was incorrectly allowing Eye of Kilrogg to fly while on Draenor.

Affliction

Agony's damage has been increased by 20%.

Nightfall should no longer fail to trigger if the most recent target of Corruption dies.

Unstable Affliction's damage has been increased by 20%.

Demonology

Mastery: Master Demonologist’s effects have been increased by 33%.

Molten Core should no longer incorrectly trigger its effect based on the casting Warlock's health

Shadow Bolt's damage has been increased by 25%.

Soul Fire's damage has been increased by 25%.

Resolved an issue where Soul Fire's damage was reduced by a greater than intended amount.

Touch of Chaos' damage has been increased by 25%.

Destruction

Chaos Bolt now deals 33% more damage in PvP combat.

Chaos Bolt's damage has been increased by 8%.

Conflagrate's damage has been increased by 8%.

Devastation now causes the Warlock to gain 15% (up from 5%) more of the Critical Strike stat from all sources.

Fire and Brimstone should now correctly hit all secondary targets within 10 yards, regardless of whether they're in combat with the Warlock.

Havoc now has a base cooldown of 20 seconds (down from 25 seconds).

Immolate's damage has been increased by 8%.

Incinerate's damage has been increased by 8%.

Rain of Fire's damage has been reduced by 60% and no longer generates Burning Embers.

Shadowburn's damage has been increased by 8%.

Resolved a situation where interactions between Immolate, Fire and Brimstone, and Cataclysm could cause Immolate to deal less damage than intended.

Talents

Damage caused by Burning Rush while Soul Link is active should no longer incorrectly cause the Warlock to go into combat.

Cataclysm now has a slight visual which can be seen by the Warlock's allies when it's being cast.

Demonbolt (Demonology) now deals 25% less damage against other players in PvP combat.

Demonbolt's (Demonology) damage has been increased by 10%.

Grimoire of Supremacy's summoned Terrorguards and Abyssals should now correctly have the Avoidance ability.

Soulburn: Haunt (Affliction) now extends up to 130% of its normal duration when refreshed, similar to periodic effects.

Stacks of Demonbolt debuff should no longer be incorrectly removed by Hand of Protection.

Glyphs

Resolved an issue where glyphed abilities that remove damage over time effects from a crowd controlled target would incorrectly cause damage over time effects stored under Soul Swap to be removed from Warlocks.

Armor Sets

Tier-15 2-piece set bonus should no longer be retained incorrectly when the set pieces are no longer equipped.

Warrior

General

Heroic Leap should no longer allow the Warrior to ignore vertical terrain restrictions while in a Dungeon, Raid, or Battleground.

Thunder Clap’s damage has been increased by 40%.

Whirlwind’s damage has been reduced by 30%.

Arms

Mastery: Weapons Master’s effects were overtuned and have been reduced in effectiveness by 18%. The mastery remains significantly stronger than before and is still 29% more powerful than prior to the hotfix from January 12.

Mastery: Weapons Master’s effects have been increased by 57.1%.

Fury

Bloodthirst's damage has increased by 20%, and has an additional 40% chance to be a critical strike (up from 30%).

Execute's (Fury) damage has increased by 10%.

Raging Blow's damage has increased by 33%.

Wild Strike should now be correctly crediting the full amount of Rage that had been spent towards the talent, Anger Management.

Wild Strike's damage has increased by 32%.

Protection

Deep Wounds’ damage has been increased by 40%.

Devastate’s damage has been increased by 20%.

Revenge’s damage has been increased by 40%.

Revenge's damage has been reduced by 20%.

Shield Slam’s damage has been increased by 20%.

Shield Slam modified by Glyph of Shield Slam now only dispels 1 magical effect while the Warrior is in Defensive Stance.

Tier-16 2-piece bonus for Protection Warriors now heals for 3% less for each character level above level 90.

PvP 4-piece set bonus now generates 3 Rage for every 1% health lost (up from 1 Rage per 1%).

Quests

All quests should now still award experience even if the character is dead at the time of completion.

Garrison Campaign quests are now listed under "Garrison Campaign" category in the Quest Log.

Corrected an issue that could cause Bloodmaul Stronghold, Shattrath City, and the Pit to sometimes not drop Apexis Crystals despite being an active quest area for the day.

Tannan Jungle

Bled Dry: Cages can now be opened by multiple players simultaneously.

Vengeance for the Fallen: Bleeding Hollow orcs respawn much more quickly now.

Frostfire Ridge

A Collection of Coils: Increased the drop rates for Coil of Sturdy Rope.

A Song of Frost and Fire: Players can no longer accept this quest if The Home of the Frostwolves is already in their quest log.

Articles of the Fallen: Players that have already completed To the Garrison should now be able to see Kal'gor the Honorable to complete the quest.

Assault on Magnarok: Increased the spawn rates for creatures and NPCs for the quest.

Battle of Thunder Pass: Dying or leaving the area during the middle of the Battle of Thunder Pass event should no longer prevent players from completing the event.

Flames of the Earth: Players are now able to free Magma Elementals without tap credit and quest completion credit is now shared amongst all characters in the party.

Gormaul Tower: (Temporary) Completion credit for the quest is automatically awarded once players reach the top of the hill.

Honor Has Its Rewards: Resolved an issue where Farseer Drek'Thar may sometimes not accept quest turn-ins.

Honor Has Its Rewards: The Shamanstone no longer requires characters to interact with it and will grant its blessing to players that are nearby.

Icespine Stinger: Increased the number of Icespine Stinger spawns.

In the Shadow of Giants: Players should now correctly receive completion credit while interacting with Flamrog or Kindler.

Karg Unchained: Players should now be able to complete or re-accept this quest after completing Return to the Pack.

Last Steps: Players joining a version of this quest that's already in-progress should now be able to receive completion credit.

Leave Nothing Behind!: Kur'ak the Binder now spawns more frequently.

Moving In: Characters that abandon the quest should now have an easier time reacquiring the quest and resume their progress on the main quest line.

Mulverick's Plight: Increased the drop rate for Mulverick's Axe.

Save Wolf Home: Gronnstalker Korhol, Beastmaster Trokar, and Giantslayer Zhakta should now spawn more frequently. Additionally, resolved an issue where characters may be unable to complete profession quests while this quest is active.

Shivertail's Den: Made a change to make it easier to receive credit for "Find Shivertail's Mother".

The Battle of Thunder Pass: Players joining a party that have already completed the quest should now be able to complete the quest and should no longer get stuck in an incorrect phase.

The Cure: Frostwolf Gladiators can no longer be killed by Alliance players.

The Eldest: Players joining a party that have already completed the quest should now be able to complete the quest and should no longer get stuck in an incorrect phase.

The Iron Wolf: Players should now be able to receive completion credit if they've died and released during the quest.

The Iron Wolf: Added another way for characters to obtain The Iron Wolf invasion quest for characters that upgraded to a Tier 3 Garrison before completing the main Frostfire questline.

The Master Siegesmith: Master Siegesmith Uratok now scales his health based on the number of players engaging him.

The Shadow Gate: Players who became stuck after completing "The Shadow Gate" will need to re-enter the cave within the Bloodmaul Stronghold in Frostfire Ridge if they were unable to see Orlana Strongbrow to continue their quest series.

The Warlord's Guard: Increased the spawn rates for Thunk, Gullok, and Splorg.

These Colors Don't Run: Characters now receive credit towards planting a Frostwolf Banner when they defeat or help in defeating a Bladespire Ogre with the exception of Bladespire Mauler, Chef, Boarbuster, Ogron, and Goresnout.

These Colors Don't Run: Multiple players can now place a banner on a Bladespire Ogre if they had tap rights.

These Colors Don't Run: Greatly increased the spawn rates for Bladespire Ogres and made them share tap credit.

Tricks of the Trade: Characters that have undergone a faction change can now complete this quest if they had already completed it on the opposite faction.

What We Need: Drudgeboat Salvage should now respawn more quickly.

Winds of Change: Olin Umberhide should now return if he despawns for any reason.

Wrath of Gronn: Increased the spawn rate for Captive Gronns.

Shadowmoon Valley

Assault on Darktide Roost: Increased the respawn rates of creatures and NPCs needed for the quest.

Assault on Socrethar's Rise: Sargerei Binders should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.

Closing the Door: Resolved an issue where Void Portals may sometimes not close correctly.

Dark Enemies: Increased spawn rates for Shadowmoon Voidmancer.

Defense of Karabor: Resolved an issue where characters may not receive completion credit for the quest.

Bonus Objective: The Howling Crag: Further increased the spawn rates of Pale Orcs and Rylak Eggs.

Bonus Objective: The Howling Crag: Increased the number and rate of Rylak Egg spawns.

Hot Seat: The Apexis Turret should no longer be able to accidentally damage players.

I See Dead People: Resolved an issue where Bryan Finn may become unresponsive.

Legacy of the Apexis: Increased the drop rates for Apexis Core.

Orders, Commander?: Resolved an issue where characters that have performed a faction change may be unable to complete the quest.

Safety Measures: Increased the spawn rate of bog denizens.

Skimming Off The Top: Increased the drop rates for Volatile Oil.

Sol Sisters: Sol-Shaper Veoryx should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.

Sol Sisters: Sol-Shaper Krashyx should no longer get stuck in evade mode.

Nagrand

Assault on the Gorian Proving Grounds: Increased the spawn rate of creatures and NPCs in the quest area.

Challenge of the Masters: Warlord Dharl of the Thrice-Bloodied Blade really should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.

Challenge of the Masters: Warlord Dharl of the Thrice-Bloodied Blade should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.

Removing the Reinforcements: Resolved an issue where the quest could not be completed if the character had already completed And Justice for Thrall.

THAELIN!: Resolved an issue where players may be able to complete the quest if they had already completed And Justice for Thrall.

The Debt We Share: Players that are mounted should now be able to receive completion credit for this quest.

Legendary Ring Quest Line

Upgrading the ring should now correctly remove the old ring from the player's inventory.

Core of Iron: Core of Iron should now only be found on Heroic difficulty Grimrail Depot.

Draenor's Secret Power: Completion of this quest is now required before being able to move onto the next step of the Legendary quest chain. For characters that skipped this quest, completion of this quest has also been made into a requirement before being eligible for the next upgrade.

Tarnished Bronze: Spirit of Kairozdormu's Time Bomb ability should no longer be hitting players that aren't in combat with him in a different phase.

Legacy

Blood of the Betrayer: Rogues should now be able to remove Arcane Infused Armor from Nalice, and be able to complete the quest.

Breaking the Emperor's Shield: Nakk'rakas should no longer despawn, allowing players to complete the quest.

Disclosure (Zul'Drak): Malmortis should no longer be getting stuck during a scripted event if the player was flagged for PvP combat and allow players to receive completion credit for the quest.

Dah, Nunt... Dah, Nunt...: Players should no longer remain stunned indefinitely and be able to complete the quest.

Get Kraken!: Increased the health for North Sea Kraken by 1000%.

Just Around the Corner: Characters should now be able to interact with Sparksocket's Tools.

Report to the King: Resolved an issue where completing this quest was incorrectly causing Hero's Call: Redridge Mountains! and My Son, the Prince to become unavailable

Roll Club: Serpent's Spine should no longer cause players to float and allow them to complete the quest.

The Brothers Bronzebeard: Brann's Flying Machine has been made to be more sturdy and should no longer be destroyed too quickly.

The Fall of Neferset City: Dark Pharaoh Tekahn should now spawn in correctly, allowing players to complete the quest.

The Strength of Tortolla: The quest can now be completed by characters with the PvP flag enabled.

Trapping the Leader (Kun-Lai Summit): Killing Shan Kien quickly should no longer prevent him from respawning.

Truce?: Characters should now be able to interact with Dull Carving Knife.

Warning the Warchief: Resolved an issue where completing this quest was incorrectly causing Machines of War and Enemies Below to become unavailable.

Resolved issues that can occur for characters that retain the Time Travelling effect outside of Blasted Lands and Theramore.

The time that corpses persist in the world has been restored back to their former durations.

Portals leading to the Dark Portal in Blasted Lands have been added next to Archmage Khadgar in Stormwind and Orgrimmar.

Removed an erroneous treasure marker displayed by using the Spires of Arak Treasure Map for a Reagent Pouch that did not actually exist.

Increased the number of situations where items and abilities slowing the player's falling speed could be used while in outdoor environments.

World Defense chat channel should be joinable once again.

Alliance characters taking a flight path to Shattered Beachhead should now arrive safely at their destination (rather than falling through the world).

Fixed an issue where Zidormi may send players to an incorrect phase in the Blasted Lands.

Resolved an issue that could cause The August Celestials daily quests to not match up in a cross-realm zone.

Frostfire Ridge

Time-Warped Tower can now be looted by Alliance characters.

Nagrand

Resolved an issue where players that die in the areas around Highmaul may be unable to resurrect at their corpse.

Players should no longer be unable to leave the tower after obtaining Steamwheedle Supplies in the Ring of Trials area.

Objects in the Mok'gul Watchpost area should no longer incorrectly cause the player to remain in combat and be unable to interact with those objects.

Timeless Isle

Resolved an issue where Mist-Covered Treasure Chest could sometimes be empty.

WoW's 10th Anniversary

WoW's 10th Anniversary event has received an extension! The event will begin again at 10AM PST on Tuesday, January 6 and ends at 10AM PST on Tuesday, January 13.

Darkmoon Faire

Reduced the levels of Moonfang, Moonfang Packmate, Moonfang Dreadhowl, Moonfang Snarler, and Darkmoon Rabbit back to pre-Warlords expansion levels. The creatures needs to respawn for the changes to take effect.

Heirloom items sold at the Darkmoon Faire should no longer have a gold cost associated with them.

Firebird's Challenge: Blazing Rings are no longer shared with other players.

It's Hammer Time: Characters that have been flagged as PvP enabled should now be able to complete the quest.

Hallow's End

Exquisite Costume Set: "The Lich King" now allows the user to ride on a mount while transformed.

Creatures and NPCs

Zidormi in Dustwallow Marsh should now correctly send players back in time to visit old Theramore.

A large number of rare creatures and NPCs on Draenor can now be tapped by players on both factions.

Citizens of Dalaran! Raise your eyes to the skies and observe! Rhonin, Leader of the Kirin Tor, should now be reciting their spoken lines to characters within a much smaller radius in the streets of the city of Dalaran. Note that his text... his text are still worth reading and continue to still be visible to those within the city.

Rare creatures and NPCs are now immune to the Enslave Demon and Control Undead effect.

Grom'kar NPCs in the Frostfire Iron Siegeworks and Gorgrond Blackrock Foundry areas should now correctly have a chance to drop Iron Horde scraps for characters with a Dwarven Bunker / War Mill in their Garrisons.

Fate-Twister Tiklal has relocated to a more prominent location closer to the Apexis Traders in Warspear.

Rare creatures and NPCs are now immune to the Dominate Mind ability.

Increased the spawn rates for creatures and NPCs across a number of questing areas for level 100 daily quests.

Developer Commentary: The vendors' offerings were previously tied to the Highmaul raid unlock, but we wanted to make sure that players have useful items to spend their Apexis Crystals on, rather than positioning them exclusively as a catch-up item vendor. The final tier of Flawless gear (item level 655) will now unlock when the Highmaul raid becomes available, rather than when Blackrock Foundry becomes available.

Made a pass on a number of rare creatures to allow multiple players to receive credit for personal loot if they helped defeat them.

Reduced the density of Squirrels in Nagrand and, critters and Icespine Hatchlings in Frostfire Ridge.

Various creatures should now correctly have a chance to drop fur that could be used for tailoring.

World Boss: Rukhmar

Energized Phoenixes should now only fixate on players that are in combat.

Resolved an issue where Rukhmar could get stuck and not reset correctly.

World Bosses: Drov the Ruiner and Tarlna the Ageless

The world bosses Drov the Ruiner and Tarlna the Ageless in Gorgrond now share a single loot eligibility lockout.

Both Drov the Ruiner and Tarlna the Ageless should no longer be available at the same time.

Tarlna the Ageless' Genesis ability now summons a maximum of 15 Giant Lashers and has a increased duration of 12 seconds (up from 6 seconds).

Tanaan Jungle

Mandragora now spawns more frequently and can be tapped by multiple players.

Frostfire Ridge

Increased the spawn rates for creatures in the Shivering Trench area in Frostfire Ridge.

Collision geometry has been added to Drek'Thar, Thrall, and Gazlowe in Frostfire Ridge.

Borrok the Devourer should now drop a Devourer's Gutstone that allows more than one player to loot it.

Fernus is now immune to Enslave Demon and Banish.

Grizzled Frostwolf Veteran's icon should no longer persist on the mini map after being defeated.

Gruuk has moved to a new location where they can be seen by both Horde and Alliance players.

Nok-Karosh's drop, Garn Nighthowl now only allows players in a party or Raid to roll greed.

Resolved an issue where Warriors using Charge against some Grimfrost Lavaslingers could become stuck in the world geometry.

Shadowmoon Valley

Bahameye should no longer be incorrectly phased in some instances.

Darktide Rylakinator-3000's attacks now deal more damage.

Gorum should now correctly leash back to their spawn point.

Gorum can now be tapped by multiple characters. All players who contributed to defeating Gorum will now become eligible for loot.

Iron Cannoneers no longer drop Iron Horde Scraps.

Krosnis is now immune to Enslave Demon and Banish.

Shadowspeaker Niir should now always be attackable.

Shinri should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.

Yggdrel now deals less damage with the Entangling Vine ability.

Gorgrond

Durotan at Beastwatch in Gorgrond is now significantly tougher.

Gorg the Host should now allow multiple players to receive credit for defeating it.

Iron Banshee should now correctly award credit towards completing Assault on the Pit.

Laughing Skull guards at Beastwatch in Gorgrond should no longer attack Horde players.

Mor the Dominator can now be tapped by multiple players.

Poundfist is now immune to crowd-control effects.

Poundfist now has 40% more health and increased the upper limit on the number of players his health can scale to.

Rangari Jonaa now has a cooldown on their Scatter Shot ability.

Typhon's icon should no longer persist on the mini map after being defeated.

Resolved an issue where Thaelin Darkanvil may not be visible as a quest giver to players that have rescued him.

Talador

NPCs in the Aruuna area should no longer cause Horde characters to become stuck in combat.

Reduced the spawn rate of creatures and NPCs laying siege in the areas around Shattrath City.

Brutag Grimblade should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.

Burning Eye's Eye of the Legion ability now has a reduced range of 30 yards (down from 100).

Cordana Felsong should now be visible to characters that are at or above level 98.

Felwrought Annihilator is now immune to the Warlock's Enslave Demon ability.

May Tirta and James Lamone located in Zangarra can no longer be attacked by characters.

Xanatos the Defiler will never be a slave and is now immune to the Warlock's Enslave Demon ability.

Spires of Arak

Increased the spawn rates for creatures and NPCs in the Skettis Ruins area in Spires of Arak. Additionally, resolved an issue where some creatures were incorrectly sharing loot with other players.

Various Kaliri in the Spires of Arak area should no longer be too high off the ground to be attacked.

Befuddled Relic-Seeker, Highmaul Relic-Seeker, and Highmaul Skullcrusher should no longer drop dead after being pickpocketed.

Rotcap's icon should no longer persist on the mini map after being defeated.

Solar Magnifier should no longer become untargetable if they are leashed while using the Excavation ability.

Nagrand

Increased the spawn rate of creatures and NPCs in the Mok'gol Watchpost area.

Hallvalor Blademaster should no longer be chasing players for excessively long distances.

Katsuo should no longer be incorrectly using Wind Walk to target players that they're not in combat with.

Gordawg no longer uses Tectonic Slam.

Graveltooth should now be using their inside voice to shout at players in the area instead of shouting at the entirety of Nagrand.

Nagrand Prowler 's Leap for the Kill ability now has a shorter stun duration and smaller damage radius.

Warsong Marauders should no longer attack Rogues that pickpocket them.

Timeless Isle

Damp Shambler's Renewing Mists now heals for less.

Pet Battle

Grommloc, the delightfully dreadful baby murloc masquerading as Grommash Hellscream, legendary leader of the Warsong clan is now available. Players eligible to receive this pet will find it in their in-game mailbox. An Achievement for obtaining this battle pet will be added in a future patch.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Satchel of Savage Mysteries now has a guaranteed chance to award a piece of Heroic Dungeon loot (item level 630 rare) appropriate for the character's loot specialization.

Developer Commentary: We’re aware of excessive queue times for Heroic Dungeons. To help players have a better experience in Dungeon Finder, we’re expanding the rewards for Satchel of Savage Mysteries to award Heroic Dungeon loot in addition to the guaranteed Augment Rune, and a chance to contain a mount, Follower enhancement token, Battle Pet, or Battle-Stone. The satchel will remain Bind on Account and we'll continue to monitor Dungeon Finder queues and iterate as needed to ensure a great experience for everyone.

Messages for obtaining an Augment Rune are no longer broadcasting to the party or raid group.

Satchel of Savage Mysteries now have a chance to contain a mount, pet, pet consumable, Draenor consumable, or Follower upgrade token in addition to an Augment Rune.

Call to Arms for in-demand roles have been reeanabled. Completing the dungeon awards a Satchel of Savage Mysteries with a chance to contain new treasures and it will always contain an Augment Rune, a tradeable item that provides a consumable buff that is ordinarily only available through Raid Finder.

After a lengthy discussion with the Postmaster regarding their mailing habits, the Postmaster should no longer be mailing back gray quality items and money that haven't been looted by characters.

The Postmaster received a talking to and should no longer be mailing large amounts of unimportant items to players.

Characters with Warlords PvP gear that had its secondary item level activated due to being in PvP combat temporarily disqualifies them from queuing for Dungeons and Raid Finder. It can take up to 20 seconds after ending PvP combat before the character will be eligible to queue up normally.

Resolved an issue where completing a Warlords of Draenor Dungeon was incorrectly being crediting progress towards the achievement, Queuing Spree.

Raids

Credit for defeating bosses on Raid Finder difficulty should no longer incorrectly have a daily reset instead of a weekly one.

The entire raid is no longer notified when a player loots an Elemental Rune or Abrogator Stone.

Blackrock Foundry

Resolved an issue where Slagshop Brutes may sometimes not reset correctly if the raid wipes while they're casting Death Howl.

Gruul

Gronnling Laborer's Gronnling Smash ability now deals less damage.

Reduced the damage that Gruul’s Inferno Slice deals to 10-player raid groups on Normal and Heroic difficulties, but increased the rate at which damage scales with raid size. Larger raid groups should find the damage relatively unchanged; smaller groups will find that the ability now deals less damage.

Gruul now uses Petrifying Slam against 5 targets in a 10-player raid, scaling up to 10 targets in a 30-player raid (used to be 8 targets for all raid sizes).

Admiral Gar'an should no longer interrupt herself while using Deploy Turret.

Fixed a situation where Tricks of the Trade (Rogue) or Misdirection (Hunter) could cause the Deckhands to go into evade mode.

Blackhand

Rubble Piles should no longer appear after the transition to stage two.

Fixed an issue where a player may not be correctly protected from Blackhand's Impaling Throw when multiple players were taking cover behind the same Rubble Pile.

Siegemaker's Black Iron Plating is now removed by Slag Bomb. Slag Bomb's damage dealt to Siegemakers now scales up based on the number of players in the Raid. To adjust for this change, damage dealt to Siegemakers has been reduced for Impaling Throw by 20% and Slag Bomb by 30% (but damage still scales up based on Raid size).

Beginning with the new raid timer, Blackhand will consistently drop universal set tokens at the same consistent rates as other bosses in Blackrock Foundry.

Blackhand's health has been reduced by 5% on Normal and Heroic difficulty.

Blaze should no longer be dealing increased damage to players with the Incendiary Shots debuff.

If the Siegemaker's Fixated target dies, it should now Fixate on the closest target.

Iron Soldier's health has been reduced by 15% on Normal and Heroic difficulty.

Cast time for Iron Soldier's Explosive Rounds ability should now be scaling smoothly with raid size and should no longer have breakpoints where the damage ramps up more than intended at 16 and 26 players.

Change Reverted: In Stage Two, Blackhand now casts Marked for Death every 16 seconds (up from 15 seconds).

Kargath Bladefist: Resolved an issue where players can incorrectly get locked to the instance after wiping to Kargath on Mythic difficulty.

Kargath Bladefist: Defeating Iron Grunts before the start of the encounter no longer grants favor with Roar of the Crowd on Mythic difficulty.

Kargath Bladefist: Players should no longer be getting trapped in the tiger pit after defeating Kargath Bladefist.

The Butcher

The Butcher: Pale Vitriol should now correctly be reapplied to Hunters under the effects of Deterrence on Mythic difficulty.

The Butcher now has a chance to drop a Green Winter Hat during Winter Veil.

The Butcher's Heavy Handed attack should now be correctly counted as an attack for abilities that require an attack to trigger its effects.

The Butcher should no longer become unresponsive if a Rogue in stealth gets too close.

The Butcher: The boars Krush and Smash now deals less damage with their Boar's Rush ability and should no longer kill players in one hit.

The Butcher's Heavy Handed ability now deals less damage if it's triggered by their off-hand weapon.

Brackenspore

Brackenspore: Elements of the fight, such as hostile fungus and beneficial mushrooms should now be visible from further away during the encounter on Mythic difficulty.

Brackenspore: Creeping Moss' healing dealt to fungal spawn will now show up in the Combat Log.

Brackenspore: Burning Infusion now increases damage and healing dealt by 13% per stack (up from 10% per stack) and decays more slowly at a rate of 1 stack every 4 seconds (up from 1 stack every 2 seconds).

Brackenspore: Elements of the encounter should now still be visible from further away.

Brackenspore: Unit frames for Living Mushrooms and Rejuvenating Mushrooms should now display properly.

Brackenspore should now correctly heal back up to full health at the start of the encounter.

Tectus

Tectus: Resolved an issue where several mobs during the encounter did not reset the cooldown on Marked for Death (Rogue Talent) when killed.

Tectus' health has been reduced by about 15% when the raid is scaled to 10 players on Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic difficulties. As the raid scales up to a maximum of 30 players, Tectus' health for 30 players remains roughly unchanged from before this hotfix.

Tectus: Motes of Tectus should now be properly tracked in the boss frames as intended.

Tectus: Visual markers for Earthen Pillar, Fracture, Meteoric Earthspire, and Radiating Poison should now be easier to see.

Tectus: Meteoric Earthspire now deals less damage on Normal and Heroic difficulties.

Tectus' targeting circle for Crystalline Barrage should now still be visible for users with projected textures disabled.

Tectus: Players should no longer be able to use their bonus rolls twice after defeating Tectus.

Tectus: If Tectus enters Berserk mode while in the process of shattering, the resulting Shards of Tectus and Motes of Tectus should now correctly enter Beserk mode as well.

Tectus: Resolved an issue where Tectus could have no loot if the entire raid dies before his death event was complete.

Tectus' Berserk timer is now 10 minutes on Normal and Heroic difficulty.

Tectus: Resolved an issue where defeating Tectus just as he was going into Berserk mode could result in no loot.

Tectus: It should now be possible to obtain the achievement, More Like Wrecked-us.

Twin Ogron

Twin Ogron: Resolved a situation where having the raid wipe just as the Twin Ogron are defeated with a raid leader that did not perform hostile action towards the bosses during the encounter could cause the raid to not be eligible for loot.

Twin Ogron: Resolved a situation where pulling Twin Ogron and having them despawn could cause the Imperator Mar'gok encounter to not work correctly on Mythic difficulty.

Twin Ogron: Pol's Arcane Ogron forms should now correctly use Arcane Charge based on the direction they're facing.

Imperator Mar'gok: Gorian Warmage's Fixate ability should now only cause the targeted player to drop out of stealth instead of incorrectly causing all steathed players in the raid to drop out of stealth.

Imperator Mar'gok: Councilor Gorluk's Phantasmal Weapons should no longer cause all players in the zone to go into combat.

Imperator Mar'gok's Mark of Chaos abilities should now be correctly applied to all characters regardless of range.

Imperator Mar'gok: Gorian Reavers now use their abilities more consistently, using Crush Armor every 6 seconds (instead of 5-8 seconds), and Kick to the Face every 20 seconds (instead of 15-30 seconds).

Imperator Mar'gok: Gorian Reavers now deal 15% less damage on all difficulty modes.

Imperator Mar'gok: Arcane Aberrations that have been Banished should now continue to use Collapsing Entity.

Imperator Mar'gok: Added a portal transporting players back to The Coliseum from Throne of the Imperator after Imperator Mar'gok has been defeated.

Imperator Mar'gok's Arcane mines for Destructive Resonance should now be easier to see for users with projected textures disabled.

Imperator Mar'gok: Visuals for Destructive Resonance should now be visible from anywhere in the Throne of the Imperator area.

Imperator Mar'gok's Arcane Wrath ability should no longer incorrectly jump to a player that has been Branded during Phase 4 with the Power of Replication.

Horde PvP vendors Lieutenant Axelash and Lieutenant Brokefist have moved closer to the road leading into Ashran, and now have collision boxes.

Players now have 60 seconds to accept the prompt to enter Ashran (up from 20 seconds).

Fangraal and Kronus now costs 3000 Artifact Fragments to summon (up from 1000).

PvP vendors in Stormshield and Warspear now have Pre-Mixed Pot of Noodles for sale to Pandaren characters.

Conquest Primal Gladiator trinkets have had their values adjusted proportionally to the Honor Primal Combatant trinkets.

Players are now removed from a Dungeon Finder or Raid Finder group upon accepting the queue to enter Ashran.

Addressed an additional issue that could cause faction Captains to stop spawning.

Events in Ashran should now occurring more frequently.

A Few Artifact Fragments should no longer be awarding more reputation than intended.

Fangraal and Kronus no longer scales their health based the number of players they're fighting. Each faction guardian's health now scales based on the number of enemy players active at the time when they're summoned.

Bonus objectives in Ashran now have a daily reset timer.

Fortune Favors the Bold no longer provides a bonus to Honor Point gains.

Disabled health regeneration for Kronus, Fangraal, Grand Marshal Tremblade, and High Warlord Volrath when they leash or drop out of combat.

Creatures outside of Ashran should no longer incorrectly have a chance to drop Artifact Fragments.

Resolved an issue where multiple captains dying at the same time could cause an incorrect number of captains to respawn.

Fangraal and Kronus now have 25% less health.

Grand Marshal Tremblade and High Warlord Volrath now scales their health based on the number of players in the zone.

Grand Marshal Tremblade should now drop a Gleaming Ashmaul Strongbox for Horde characters when they're defeated.

High Warlord Volrath and Grand Marshal Tremblade now only award 50 Honor for defeating them (down from 500).

Resolved a pathing issue for Fangraal, Kronus, and faction Captains.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Roll or Flying Serpent Kick (Windwalker) should now work correctly for Monks while they're carrying a flag.

Resolved an issue where some items with Bonus Armor were scaling incorrectly in non-max level bracket Battlegrounds.

Healers leaving an Arena match should no longer sometimes cause Dampening to reset.

Resolved an additional number of situations where players could incorrectly obtain items that require Vol'jin's Spear or Wrynn's Vanguard to equip from a Rated Battleground or The Coliseum.

The level 90 bracket has been merged into the level 91-99 bracket.

Priests should no longer be able to continue to hold onto the flag while in Spirit of Redemption form.

Rated Battleground flag carriers in a tanking specialization should no longer be taking more damage than flag carriers in a non-tanking specialization. Previously, flag carrying tanks took 50% more damage and that stacked with an additional 25% damage received while in RBGs (additional 75% damage received total). This change removes the 50% additional damage taken while carrying a flag in an RBG.

Rated Battlegrounds should no longer incorrectly be awarding PvP gear and items that require reputation with Vol'jin's Spear or Wrynn's Vanguard to equip.

Resolved an issue where if a Flag Carrier was standing in the area where their team's flag would be when it is returned, they'd be unable to capture the flag until they leave and return to the area again.

Battleground Flag Carriers should now correctly have a 45-second delay before their location is revealed to the enemy team (was incorrectly revealing their location immediately).

Resurrection times in Rated Battlegrounds has been corrected to be 25 seconds (was 15 seconds).

An item now needs to be at least item level 560 or above before being eligible to be scaled up to 650 in level 100 Battlegrounds and Arenas.

Resolved an issue where item levels for Battlegrounds, Arenas, and Skirmishes brackets below level 100 were not scaling correctly.

Battlegrounds

Druid's Starfall and Sunfall no longer targets players that are capturing a PvP point in Arathi Basin, Battle for Gilneas, and Eye of the Storm.

Capturing a point in Arathi Basin, The Battle for Gilneas City, and the Rated Battlegrounds version for Eye of the Storm should now take 7 seconds (down from 8 seconds). This change restores time to capture a point back to what it was for these Battlegrounds in pre-6.0.2.

Hand of Protection should now interrupt players that are in the process of capturing a point in the Battlegrounds.

Characters should now receive a popup notifying them with the amount of bonus Honor that was awarded at the end of a Random Battleground match.

Increased Honor gains for Arathi Basin, Deepwind Gorge, Eye of the Storm, and The Battle for Gilneas. Honor is now awarded for every 150 resources gathered (up from Honor being awarded for every 250 resources gathered).

Returning a flag in Battlegrounds should correctly play an appropriate sound once more.

Bonus Honor for winning a Battleground is now only awarded when queued for a Random Battleground (it was incorrectly awarding the bonus Honor for any Battleground win).

Tarren Mill vs Southshore

Victory conditions are now for the first side to reach 300 points or the match results in a tie after 30 minutes.

Tarren Mill Deathguards and Alliance Guards now have more health.

Arathi Basin

Arathi Basin: Completion criteria for the Resilient Victory achievement should now be tracking correctly and be obtainable.

Players should now always have a fixed 25-second resurrection timer while in a Rated Battleground match.

Using Ice Floes or Aspect of the Fox should no longer incorrectly allow players to capture a point while moving.

Characters on the Alliance team in a Rated Battleground should now be able to be resurrected by their Spirit Healer at the Blacksmith graveyard if their team is in control of it.

Deepwind Gorge

Using Ice Floes or Aspect of the Fox should no longer incorrectly allow players to capture a point while moving.

Status of the mine cart should now be updating correctly.

Eye of the Storm

Eye of the Storm (Rated): Fixed an issue where defending a capture point at Mage Tower and Blood Elf Tower displays the wrong tower in the chat window.

Eye of the Storm: Fixed an issue where Horde players were unable to capture the flag at Mage Tower.

Flag captures in both normal and Rated Eye of the Storm match should now be correctly registering on the scoreboard and grant credit towards achievements that have to do with capturing a flag.

Flipping control of Draenei Ruins in a Rated Eye of the Storm match should now immediately teleport players waiting to be resurrected to the next available graveyard.

Resolved an issue in a Rated Eye of the Storm match that could cause a capture point to not flip correctly and be unable to be captured.

Characters in a Rated Battleground will now return to their team's starting position when releasing, regardless of what bases their team controls.

Isle of Conquest

Huge Seaforium Bombs no longer have a level requirement to interact with them.

Silvershard Mines

The northern track switch should now work correctly.

Strand of the Ancients

Players should now correctly receive a Gold Strongbox for winning.

The Battle for Gilneas

Resolved issues where Spirit Healers may sometimes not spawn in correctly when a point has been captured.

Warsong Gulch

Players in a Wargame or Rated Battleground should no longer be sent to the wrong graveyard.

Arenas

Faction flags should no longer appear for players in an Arena or Arena Skirmish match.

Priests entering an Arena match while in Spirit of Redemption form should no longer die during the Arena Preparation phase.

Tol'viron Arena should now correctly have Dampening.

Professions

Level-up items created by some professions no longer use reagents that required a daily cooldown to create and are no longer soulbound. To compensate for this change, basic reagent requirements have been increased and vendor buyback price for those items have been reduced now that they're less rare.

Crafted gear and weapons received an item level boost. Tooltips for the items will still display the incorrect (older) item level.

Crafted Tier-2 weapons now have an item level of 645 (up from 640).

Crafted Tier-3 weapons now have an item level of 660 (up from 655).

Crafted Tier-3 gear now have an item level of 670 (up from 665).

Characters with over 600 skill should no longer continue to find catch-up items for the respective profession.

Archeology

Based on player feedback, a number of adjustments have been made to Alchemy recipes. Combat potion recipes no longer requires Crescent Oil and meat/fish, and will require herbs instead. Flask recipes now use more herbs, increasing the number of herbs needed from one type of herb to two.

Pristine Ancestral Talisman and Pristine Cracked Ivory Idol should no longer be incorrectly awarded again if the character has already obtained the item.

Moved some Archeology nodes in the area around Icewind Drifts in Frostfire Ridge to no longer be in inaccessible locations.

Alchemy

Mixology should be working correctly doubles the duration of flasks and elixirs once more.

Enchanting

Resolved an issue that could cause Enchanter's Illusions to be reverted from an item.

Rare (blue) quality items now have a greatly increased chance to disenchant into Draenic Dust instead of a Small Luminous Shard. Additionally, characters with the Enchanting profession should receive more Draenic Dust while disenchanting an item.

Mark of Blackrock can no longer trigger its effect for the first 40 seconds after equipping the weapon.

Mark of Blackrock now triggers its effect more frequently, and can occur when the character is below 60% health (up from being below 50% health), and can also trigger from blocking an attack or absorbing damage.

Mark of the Shattered Hand now triggers its bleed effect less frequently.

Enchant Boots - Mastery now increases Mastery by 9 (down from 11).

Engineering

Blingtron 5000 should now correctly resume offering their daily quest after defeating another Blingtron.

First Aid

Antiseptic Bandage no longer requires Sea Scorpion Segments to craft.

Inscription

Ink Traders should now accept Warbinder's Ink in exchange for other inks.

Jewelcrafting

Based on player feedback, a number of adjustments have been made to Jewelcrafting recipes. Tier 1 gem recipes now requires more ore and less herbs. Tier 2 gem recipes will no longer requires herbs and instead require a tier 1 gem.

Critical Strike Taladite should no longer incorrectly require a Taladite Crystal to craft.

Items

Inscription-crafted Warlords trinkets should no longer be able to be upgraded using crystals meant for upgrading Inscription-crafted weapons as this could cause the trinket to end up in a broken state.

Potions and flasks from earlier expansions should no longer be more powerful than ones from later expansions.

The following items can now stack up to 20.

Crate of Salvage

Big Crate of Salvage

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All Follower contracts are now bind-on-pickup.

Primal Spirits should now be dropping more frequently while harvesting mineral and herb nodes outside of the Garrison, from Skinning, and in a satchel obtained by completing the daily Fishing quest from the Garrison Fishing Shack.

Potions purchased from the Brawler's Guild are now bind on pickup.

Healing effects from healing potions should no longer incorrectly be able to critically heal or Multistrike.

Raid buffs to Mastery no longer counts for food that provides a well fed buff to the highest secondary stat.

General goods vendors across Draenor now offer Crystal Vials and Enchanting Vellums for sale.

Consumable items that summons a fast mount can no longer be used while in a Challenge Mode.

Follower Weapon and Armor enhancements can now stack up to 20.

Temporary buffs that increase Critical Strike should now correctly increase Parry through Riposte for tanking specializations.

Consuming a Draenor potion, elixir, or flask should no longer cause the character to break out of stealth.

Draenor Treasure Maps are now bind on pickup.

Many epic trinkets in Draenor received a buff to ensure a proper progression path through the Raid tier. This change affects world-drop BoE epic trinkets, Inscription-crafted epic trinkets, and trinkets that drop from Highmaul and Blackrock Foundry. Further information on this change could be found in the forum thread titled: Trinket Hotfixes.

Note that Scabbard of Kyanos was unintentionally buffed much more than intended and its stats will be reverted to a more reasonable level.

Missing Class Glyphs

The following Glyphs were not available to be crafted through Inscription and have been added to vendors in Stormshield and Warspear. Alliance players can purchase them from Joao Calhandro, and Horde players can purchase them from Maru'sa. The glyphs are unique and bind on acquire.

Glyph of the Solstice (Druid)

Glyph of Flying Fists (Monk)

Glyph of Cleanse (Paladin)

Glyph of Purification (Priest)

Glyph of Purify Spirit (Shaman)

Glyph of Frostbrand Weapon (Shaman) will be automatically learned at level 75.

A number of items with no function are now listed as gray/junk quality item.

Epic quality Bind on Equip world drops are no longer eligible for a Need roll.

Many Warlords of Draenor trinkets received an adjustment to their stats to provide a bonus that's more appropriate for the trinket's item level.

Epic rings that are a part of the Legendary quest line can no longer be disenchanted.

Adjusted a number of item enhancements from earlier expansions that were providing a larger than intended bonus.

Adjusted a number of potions from the Cataclysm expansion that were providing a larger than intended bonus.

Elixirs from the Cataclysm expansion should no longer be more powerful than their counterparts from Mists of Pandaria.

Made a number of adjustments where lower level food items were providing a larger than intended buff.

The following items are now uncommon quality (green) so there's less award pop-ups when retrieving the them from Garrison work orders. There's been no change to the item's functionality or availability.

Aviana's Feather now only works in outdoor Draenor areas, and other outdoor areas that allow flight.

Blackfire Scepter now grants a more modest increase to Intellect.

Bloodwood Wand now grants a less astronomical bonus to Spell Power.

Boiled Silkworm Pupa now provides a buff to Critical Strike instead of Hit.

Bonemaw's Big Toe can now be Needed by Warriors.

Cache of Highmaul Treasures should no longer incorrectly spawn items that can be upgraded.

Claws of Agony and Claws of Torment's 2-piece set bonus now gives a more reasonable amount of Haste.

Coil of Sturdy Rope, a Horde quest item should no longer be incorrectly dropping for Alliance characters.

Cracked Potion Vials should no longer drop for non-Alchemists.

Crocolisk Au Gratin should now correctly provide a buff to Haste and Stamina instead of Expertise and Stamina.

Darkmoon Top Hat can now only be used while the Darkmoon Faire is active.

Darmac's Unstable Talisman, Furyheart Talisman, and Goren Soul Repository can now trigger its effect from heals as well.

Elixir of Deep Earth now increases armor by 67 (down from 268).

Everbloom Seed Pouch no longer affects other players.

Everburning Candle was buffed much more than intended. The amount of mana granted has been reduced to 10,456 (down from 20,916). Additional information on the reasoning for this change can be found in the forum thread: Everburning Candle Changes.

Excavated Highmaul Thingamabob, Fungus-Infected Hydra Lung, Pulsating Brain of No'losh, and Thornmother Eye can now trigger its effect from non-healing spells as well.

Fisherman's Feast now provides a more reasonable buff to Stamina.

Formula: Enchant Ring - Striking no longer has a use effect as the formula it teaches no longer exists.

Frostwolf Fishing Journal can no longer be sold to a vendor and no longer has a sell price.

Gently Squeezed Toad is no longer usable while in a Challenge Mode Dungeon.

Gnomish Net Launcher now has a level 91 requirement to equip and provides a more appropriate bonus to Versatility.

Goren Disguise can no longer be used while in a Challenge Mode Dungeon.

Goren Disguise no longer works in Arenas or Rated Battlegrounds.

Guide: Sharpshooting should now correctly have a chance to drop for Hunters from rare Draenor NPCs and creatures.

Haunted Memento's Haunted effect is now a buff that can be removed by the character.

Invisibility Field's effect is now on a shared cooldown with other invisibility effects.

Ironmender's Totem can now also trigger its effect from healing spells.

Kowalski's Music Box should now correctly apply its soothing effect to targets that are not in combat.

Mantid Elixir now provides a more reasonable increase to armor.

Manual Crowd Pummeler's on-use effect now grants a more reasonable increase to Haste.

Metamorphic Crystal has no function is now listed as gray/junk quality item.

Miner’s Coffee should no longer be incorrectly applying its speed buff outside of the Garrison's mine.

Timeless Isle Tokens and legendary weapons looted during the fight with Kael'thas Sunstrider in Tempest Keep are no longer included in the guild news panel.

Bags set to "Ignore this bag" should now be saving the setting correctly when the character logs out or zones into a new area.

/console colorblindshader [0-8] has been re-enabled and replaced with /console colorblindsimulator [0-8].

Settings for SET ffxGlow should no longer be resetting when exiting the game client.

Bug Fixes

Alliance characters that complete the Primal Combatant achievement are no longer being told to go to Orgrimmar to receive a reward.

Fixed an issue where characters that log out on the Deeprun Tram may be unable to log back in.

Resolved an issue where characters that log out while in another player's Garrison may be unable to log back in.

Got My Mind On My Draenor Money should now correctly credit gold looted while in a Dungeon or Raid.

Resolved an issue that could cause Quest achievements for Draenor zones to not be awarded correctly to characters below level 100.

Resolved an issue where having a player join the Dungeon Finder or Raid Finder group just as another player was leaving could cause the button to queue up for additional players to remain greyed out for the rest of the group.

Resolved an issue where the Darkmoon Faire was not showing up in the in-game calendar past December 2014.

Resolved an issue where Druids that performed a Character Boost would be unable to learn the Incarnation talent until they have completed Tanaan Jungle.

Resolved an issue where dispelling Prayer of Mending was incorrectly only removing a single charge instead of the entire effect.

Recruit-a-Friend characters should now be correctly receiving a 300% bonus to the experience awarded for completing a Dungeon (was incorrectly awarding 900% instead).

New Pandaren Hunters that use the Level 90 Character Boost should now start with a turtle pet.

Resolved an issue where buffs received from a Shamanstone was incorrectly causing the character to travel much more slowly while on a flight path.

Resolved an issue that could cause characters to become stuck on a flight path.

Resolved an issue where Draenor Perks for characters may sometimes not be saving correctly.

Resolved an issue where boosting characters that have XP disabled could wind up being unable to level.

Resolved an issue where items transmogrified into The Horseman's Horrific Hood or The Horseman's Sinister Slicer could revert back to their original state.

Resolved an issue where boosting characters could cause them to forget spells that have been taught by items.

Resolved a frame rate stuttering issue that was affecting some Mac OS clients.

Mobile Armory's guild chat should be working once more.

World of Warcraft Patch 6.0.3, Build 19342

Released: 12-18-2014

UI

Gnomes should now be able to see Wrynn's Vanguard in the reputations panel.

Players should no longer be receiving Garrison Invasions notices if their Garrisons are below tier 3.

Resolved an issue that caused PvP items to report an incorrect item level and stats.

Bug Fixes

Resolved an issue where the terrain may not be visible immediately when players load into their Garrisons.

Resolved an issue that could affect the frame rates of users on a Mac OS client running on video cards with more than 2GB of video ram.